Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.

I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.

I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personalrelations. But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such disparaging words. For persons are love's world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.

Every great man is unique.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason and faith.