Yet I experienced sometimes that the most sweet and tender, the most innocent and encouraging society may be found in any naturalobject, even for the poor misanthrope and most melancholy man. There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of nature and has his senses still.

It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day.

In literature it is only the wild that attracts us.

It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living: how to make getting a living not merely honest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious; for if getting a living is not so, then living is not.

It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.

I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them.

If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.