Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other's privacy than their communion.

Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever.