As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw; not that I was hungry then, except for that wildness which he represented.

The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman.

Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to be well, we should not be sick.

I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood.

If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial?

It is the man determines what is said, not the words.

Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.