I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.

All good things are wild and free.

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.

Yet, for my part, I was never unusually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary.

I feel as if my life had grown more outward when I can express it.

If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.

It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws.