There is a slumbering subterranean fire in nature which never goes out, and which no cold can chill.

We soon get through with Nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy. The merest child which has rambled into a copsewood dreams of a wildness so wild and strange and inexhaustible as Nature can never show him.

Making a logging-road in the Maine woods is called "swamping" it, and they who do the work are called "swampers." I now perceivedthe fitness of the term. This was the most perfectly swamped of all the roads I ever saw. Nature must have coöperated with art here.

Do not entertain doubts if they are not agreeable to you.

I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.