I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.

I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources.

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.

Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.

Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen arms to the light,--to see its perfect success; but most are content to behold it in the shape of many broad boards brought to market, and deem that its true success! But the pine is no more lumber than man is, and to be made into boards and houses is no more its true and highest use than the truest use of a man is to be cut down and made into manure.

As for me, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are now only the subtlest imaginable essences, which would not stain the morning sky.