These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

It is about your outlook towards life. You can either regret or rejoice.

The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning.

I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.

Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.

Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.

No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.