It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Let your condiments be in the condition of your senses.

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.

If you give money, spend yourself with it.

In Adam's fall We sinned all. In the new Adam's rise, We shall all reach the skies.

What is most striking in the Maine wilderness is the continuousness of the forest, with fewer open intervals or glades than you had imagined. Except the few burnt lands, the narrow intervals on the rivers, the bare tops of the high mountains, and the lakes and streams, the forest is uninterrupted.

We can conceive of nothing more fair than something which we have experienced.