Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

There is commonly sufficient space about us. Our horizon is never quite at our elbows.

A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and principles,Mthat was what distinguished him.

The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.

I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.

The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory.