Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.

It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.

A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.

The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that saves it; but as I love literature and to some extent the truth also, I never read those columns at any rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much.

Many have believed that Walden reached quite through to the other side of the globe.