We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. [So why not suspect good rather than bad in events, people and life and thereby find it more?]

I think it would be worth the while to introduce a school of children to such [an oak grove], that they may get an idea of the primitive oaks before they are all gone, instead of hiring botanists to lecture to them when it is too late.

If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubled with ennui.

You may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or not.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.