The most alive is the wildest.

A true politeness does not result from any hasty and artificial polishing, it is true, but grows naturally in characters of the right grain and quality, through a long fronting of men and events, and rubbing on good and bad fortune.

Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons.

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.

I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary.

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.