He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.

To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself.

English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.

I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.