Today you may write a chapter on the advantages of traveling, and tomorrow you may write another chapter on the advantages of not traveling.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.

Our panaceas cure but few ails, our general hospitals are private and exclusive. We must set up another Hygeia than is now worshiped. Do not the quacks even direct small doses for children, larger for adults, and larger still for oxen and horses? Let us remember that we are to prescribe for the globe itself.

if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well?

Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become radiant of beauty. There seem to be two sides of this world, presented us at different times, as we see things in growth or dissolution, in life or death. And seen with the eye of the poet, as God sees them, all things are alive and beautiful.

Nature is full of genius, full of divinity.

I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway.