We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.
For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.
On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning.
I heartily accept the motto, “That government is best which governs least”; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.
As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.
The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.
When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here – the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey, etc, etc – I cannot but feel as I lived in a tamed, and, as it were, emasculated country.
I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way .
Trees indeed have hearts.
It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.
A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.
There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.
That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.
Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.
He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past.
They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.
What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.
Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.
The three-o’-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.
I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.