There may be something petty in a refined taste; it easily degenerates into effeminacy. It does not consider the broadest use. It is not content with simple good and bad, and so is fastidious and curious or nice only.

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature.

I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.

Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin!

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

As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life.

I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust,... confess that I am astonished at the power of endurance, to say nothing of the moral insensibility, of my neighbors who confine themselves to shops and offices the whole day for weeks and months, aye, and years almost together. I know not what manner of stuff they are of,--sitting there now at three o'clock in the afternoon, as if it were three o'clock in the morning.