A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.

Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.

The true man of science will know nature better by his finer organization; he will smell, taste, see, hear, feel, better than other men. His will be a deeper and finer experience. We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. It is with science as with ethics,--we cannot know truth by contrivance and method; the Baconian is as false as any other, and with all the helps of machinery and the arts, the most scientific will still be the healthiest and friendliest man, and possess a more perfect Indian wisdom.

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance.

Is it the lumberman, then, who is the friend and lover of the pine, stands nearest to it, and understands its nature best? Is it the tanner who has barked it, or he who has boxed it for turpentine, whom posterity will fable to have been changed into a pine at last? No! no! it is the poet: he it is who makes the truest use of the pine-who does not fondle it with an axe, nor tickle it with a saw, nor stroke it with a plane. . . .

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.