I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural.

What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that practically I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all.

The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours ... but is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day.

The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that we loiter about the actual and so-called practical.

As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.

We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.

What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong that a little gladness may not transgress.