A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

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?

That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any more than to Patagonia.

The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.

After reading Howitt's account of the Australian gold-diggings one evening,... I asked myself why I might not be washing some golddaily, though it were only the finest particles,--why I might not sink a shaft down to the gold within me, and work that mine.... At any rate, I might pursue some path, however solitary and narrow and crooked, in which I could walk with love and reverence.

As for the complex ways of living, I love them not, however much I practice them. In as many places as possible, I will get my feet down to the earth.