As all curves have reference to their centres or foci, so all beauty of character has reference to the soul, and is a graceful gesture of recognition or waving of the body toward it.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.

Some interests have got a footing on the earth which we have not made sufficient allowance for.

Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.