He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.

I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.

In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful

If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.

Society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good insome particular but negligent or narrow in the rest; and hypocrisy and vanity are often the disgusting result.

Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me the answers also, in due time.

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.