In America and Europe, the nomadism is of trade and curiosity.

If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation of lovers, of benefactors, of true, great, and able men.

I thought as I rode in the cold pleasant light of Sunday morning how silent & passive nature offers, every morn, her wealth to man; she is immensely rich, he is welcome to her entire goods, which he speaks no word, only leaves over doors ajar, hall, store room, & cellar. He may do as he will: if he takes her hint & uses her goods, she speaks no word; if he blunders & starves, she says nothing.

The reality is more excellent than the report.

True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.

For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?