Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

We say justly that the weak person is flat, for, like all flat substances, he does not stand in the direction of his strength, that is, on his edge, but affords a convenient surface to put upon. He slides all the way through life.... But the brave man is a perfect sphere, which cannot fall on its flat side and is equally strong every way.

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

Let a slight snow come and cover the earth, and the tracks of men will show how little the woods and fields are frequented.

We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.

If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success.

I have made a short excursion into the new world which the Indian dwells in, or is. He begins where we leave off.