What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?

The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention

Spring. March fans it, April christens it, and May puts on its jacket and trousers.

The Man of Genius may at the same time be, indeed is commonly, an Artist, but the two are not to be confounded. The Man of Genius,referred to mankind, is an originator, an inspired or demonic man, who produces a perfect work in obedience to laws yet unexplored. The artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected. There has been no man of pure Genius, as there has been none wholly destitute of Genius.

Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.