Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.

Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be credited with the grand result than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.

Earth endures; Stars abide.

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

In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.