A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.

Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

America is a country of young men.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

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.