I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.

Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption.

At present the globe goes with a shattered constitution in its orbit.... No doubt the simple powers of nature, properly directed by man, would make it healthy and a paradise; as the laws of man's own constitution but wait to be obeyed, to restore him to health and happiness.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.

He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly.