Nothing but great antiquity can make graveyards interesting to me. I have no friends there.

There is always room and occasion enough for a true book on any subject; as there is room for more light the brightest day and more rays will not interfere with the first.

The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted, and so, in one sense, the dim prospectus of our future field.

I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.

Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.

Nature has from the first expanded the minute blossoms of the forest only toward the heavens, above men's heads and unobserved bythem. We see only the flowers that are under our feet in the meadows.

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.