We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to s….

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces..

Who looks in the sun will see no light else; but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but the centre is ever the same, and the ….

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born..

Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it..

The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each..

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment..

The principal, the only, thing a man makes, is his condition of fate. Though commonly he does not know it, nor put up a sign to this effect, "My own ….

We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander..

We often love to think now of the life of men on beaches,--at least in midsummer, when the weather is serene; their sunny lives onthe sand, amid the ….

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails..

We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects..

To live a better life,--this surely can be done..

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then..

I knew that the wall was the main thing in Quebec, and had cost a great deal of money.... In fact, these are the only remarkable walls we have in Nor….

Time cannot bend the line which God has writ..

A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the fore part plays. She does not disco….

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society..

I have made a short excursion into the new world which the Indian dwells in, or is. He begins where we leave off..

There is no history of how bad became better..

Even the best things are not equal to their fame..