Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls, or to boys, or into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear.

It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own.

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.

No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.