Though the youth at last grows indifferent, the laws of the universe are not indifferent, but are forever on the side of the most sensitive.

I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more than I wanted. They attached me to the earth, and so I got strength like Antaeus.

Ktaadnis an Indian word signifying highest land,... very few, even among backwoodsmen and hunters, have ever climbed it, andit will be a long time before the tide of fashionable travel sets that way.

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.

A simple woman down in Tyngsborough, at whose house I once stopped to get a draught of water, when I said, recognizing the bucket, that I had stopped there nine years before for the same purpose, asked if I was not a traveler, supposing that I had been traveling ever since, and had now come round again.

Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.