I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker.

If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.

Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality.

No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.

One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.