The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself.

Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds andwars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, "so hot? my little Sir.

There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.

A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.