Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.

Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.

You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.

When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.

To fill the hour──that is happiness.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.