Of Nature itself upon the soul; the sunrise, the haze of autumn, the winter starlight seem interlocutors; the prevailing sense is that of an exposition in poetry; a high discourse, the voice of the speaker seems to breathe as much from the landscape as from his own breast; it is Nature communing with the seer.

Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.

No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.

A man often pays dear for a small frugality.

Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

There was never a man born so wise or good, but one or more companions came into the world with him, who delight in his faculty, and report it. I cannot see without awe, that no man thinks alone and no man acts alone, but the divine assessors who came up with him into life,--now under one disguise, now under another,--like a police in citizen's clothes, walk with him, step for step, through all kingdoms of time.

Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.