There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude.

Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!

The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning

Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.

The poet's, commonly, is not a logger's path, but a woodman's. The logger and pioneer have preceded him, like John the Baptist; eaten the wild honey, it may be, but the locusts also; banished decaying wood and the spongy mosses which feed on it, and built hearths and humanized Nature for him.