Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.

Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers.

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.

Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic.

Let no one think that I do not love the old ministers. They were, probably, the best men in their generation, and they deserve that their biographies should fill the pages of the town histories. If I could but hear the "glad tidings" of which they tell, and which, perchance, they heard, I might write in a worthier strain than this.