We could not help contrasting the equanimity of Nature with the bustle and impatience of man. His words and actions presume alwaysa crisis near at hand, but she is forever silent and unpretending.

I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not truly lived.

A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.

I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America, but it is not America. Neither Americus Vespucius, nor Columbus, nor the rest were the discoverers of it. There is a truer account of it in Mythology than in any history of America so called that I have seen.

Be not merely good. Be good for something.

We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.