For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snow-storms and rain-storms, and did my duty faithfully; surveyor, if not of highways, then of forest paths and all across-lot routes, keeping them open, and ravines bridged and passable at all seasons, where the public heel had testified to their utility.

Some suggestions for you :

Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.

Every man looks upon his wood pile with a sort of affection.

It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time.

I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight, New earths, and skies and seas around.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

Say what you have to say, not what you ought.

Every man has to learn the points of compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction. Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea.

Make the most of your regrets never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

If you want inner peace find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.

It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way...But lo! men have become the tools of their tools...We have built for this world a family mansion, and for the next a family tomb.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.