It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods.

I think it would be worth the while to introduce a school of children to such [an oak grove], that they may get an idea of the primitive oaks before they are all gone, instead of hiring botanists to lecture to them when it is too late.

The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.

If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

Methinks I am never quite committed, never wholly the creature of my moods, but always to some extent their critic. My only integral experience is in my vision. I see, perchance, with more integrity than I feel.