We have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a better sense than they.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

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.

Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken by society.

If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.

Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the unelastic plank of famine.

We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.