I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.

One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate.

Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.

My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

A hero's love is as delicate as a maiden's.