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

We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.

Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have some redeeming traits even to the eye.

In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.

All men are children, and of one family.

The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.

The scenery, when it is truly seen, reacts on the life of the seer. How to live. How to get the most of life.... How to extract its honey from the flower of the world.