Heal yourselves, doctors; by God I live.

Half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return-prepared to send beck our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms. If you are ready to leave father and mother, brother and sister, and wife and child and friends and never see them again,-if you have paid your debts and made your will, and settled your affairs and are a free man, then you are ready for a walk.

Yet I experienced sometimes that the most sweet and tender, the most innocent and encouraging society may be found in any naturalobject, even for the poor misanthrope and most melancholy man. There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of nature and has his senses still.

As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.