Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all.

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.

A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.

All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.