Only what is thought, said, or done at a certain rare coincidence is good.

Of course it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither. I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.... What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods?

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.

And so the seasons went rolling on into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass.

Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.

A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.