When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall?

This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.

The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours ... but is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day.

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.

How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of acommon mint.

You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.