I am very little of a traveler.

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched.

Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.

I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more than that - sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.