Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

The world exists for the education of each man.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations, a reliance on the moral sentiment, and a sufficient belief in the unity of things to persuade them that society can be maintained without artificial restraints, as well as the solar system; or that the private citizen might be reasonable, and a good neighbor, without the hint of a jail or a confiscation.

...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason and faith.

Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who could ever clutch it? Go forth to find it, and it is gone: 't is only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence.