find your eternity in each moment

Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.

The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact.

It is far more independent to travel on foot. You have to sacrifice so much to the horse. You cannot choose the most agreeable places in which to spend the noon., commanding the finest views, because commonly there is no water there, or you cannot get there with your horse.

One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.

The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that we loiter about the actual and so-called practical.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.