Be true to your work, your word, and your friend

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity

A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

Every generation laughs from the old fashion, but follows religiously the new.

[Water is] the only drink for a wise man.

How meanly and grossly do we deal with nature!

Rather than love, than money, than change, give me truth!

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

As a true patriot, I should be ashamed that Adam in paradise was more favorably situated on the whole than the backwoodsman in this country.

Yet some can be patriotic who have no self respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less.