I would that our farmers when they cut down a forest felt some of that awe which the old Romans did when they came to thin, or letin the light to, a consecrated grove (lucum conlucare), that is, would believe that it is sacred to some god. The Roman made an expiatory offering, and prayed, Whatever god or goddess thou art to whom this grove is sacred, be propitious to me, my family, and children, etc.

In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.

To say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy.

The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.

The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond about a hundred rods south of where I dwell. I usually go to the village along its causeway, and am, as it were, related to society by this link. The men on the freight trains, who go over the whole length of the road, bow to me as to an old acquaintance, they pass me so often, and apparently they take me for an employee; and so I am. I too would fain be a track-repairer somewhere in the orbit of the earth.

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.