There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.

If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me.

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

It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about.

Beware of any profession for which you must buy new clothes.

Our own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any; rocks at least as well covered with lichens,and a soil which, if it is virgin, is but virgin mould, the very dust of nature. What if we cannot read Rome or Greece, Etruria or Carthage, or Egypt or Babylon, on these; are our cliffs bare?

When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.