A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.

A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my feet on the sod before my door. It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

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

Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.

We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.

I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour.