Let a slight snow come and cover the earth, and the tracks of men will show how little the woods and fields are frequented.

I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor - not sailed - made no voyage, carried no venture.

The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful.

In my Pantheon, Pan still reigns in his pristine glory, with his ruddy face, his flowing beard, and his shaggy body, his pipe and his crook, his nymph Echo, and his chosen daughter Iambe; for the great god Pan is not dead, as was rumored. No god ever dies. Perhaps of all the gods of New England and of ancient Greece, I am most constant at his shrine.

Woe be to the generation that lets any higher faculty in its midst go unemployed.

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.