Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.

[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.

Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.

Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"

At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. The knapsack of custom falls off his back with the first step he makes into these precincts. Here is sanctity which shames our religions, and reality which discredits our heroes. Here we find Nature to be the circumstance which dwarfs every other circumstance, and judges like a god all men that come to her.

The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.

We boil at different degrees.