The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.

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

A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and principles,Mthat was what distinguished him.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

A man who has to go to the village to get the news hasn't heard from himself in a long time.

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.