Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.

In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.

Wisdom will never let us stand with any man on an unfriendly footing. We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we waited for some better sympathy or intimacy to come. But whence and when: Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.

Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.

Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.