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

It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance ... To perceive freshly, with fresh senses is to be inspired.

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.

The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood the parched uplands; even this may be the eventful year, which will drown out all our muskrats. It was not always dry land where we dwell. I see far inland the banks where the stream anciently washed, before science began to record its freshets.