The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race.

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.

I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful.

So far as my experience goes, travelers generally exaggerate the difficulties of the way. Like most evil, the difficulty is imaginary; for what's the hurry?

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

Education makes a straight ditch of a free meandering brook.