One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.

Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.

On every hand we observe a truly wise practice, in education, in morals, and in the arts of life, the embodied wisdom of many an ancient philosopher.

Your richest veins don't lie nearest the surface.

We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.

Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.

The poet's, commonly, is not a logger's path, but a woodman's. The logger and pioneer have preceded him, like John the Baptist; eaten the wild honey, it may be, but the locusts also; banished decaying wood and the spongy mosses which feed on it, and built hearths and humanized Nature for him.