We rarely meet a man who can tell us any news which he has not read in a newspaper, or been told by his neighbor; and, for the most part, the only difference between us and our fellow is, that he has seen the newspaper, or been out to tea, and we have not.

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

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

The moose will perhaps one day become extinct; but how naturally then, when it exists only as a fossil relic, and unseen as that, may the poet or sculptor invent a fabulous animal with similar branching and leafy horns, — a sort of fucus or lichen in bone, — to be the inhabitant of such a forest as this!

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

Why should the hen set all day? She can lay but one egg, and besides she will not have picked up materials for a new one. Those who work much do not work hard.

This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments?

More than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness ... Give me the truth.

The stove not only took up room and scented the house, but it concealed the fire, and I felt as if I had lost a companion. You can always see a face in the fire.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

It enriches us infinitely to recognize greater qualities than we possess in another.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

I do not refuse the Blue-Pearmain, I fill my pockets on each side; and as I retrace my steps in the frosty eve, being perhaps four or five miles from home, I eat one first from this side, and then from that, to keep my balance.

For my greatest skill has been to want but little.

This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.