Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!

No matter what your work, let it be your own. No matter what your occupation, let what you are doing be organic. Let it be in your bones. In this way, you will open the door by which the affluence of heaven and earth shall stream into you.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.

With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.