Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day.

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a cold.

Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.

The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to climb and pry intotheir secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there. Simple races, as savages, do not climb mountains,--their tops are sacred and mysterious tracts never visited by them. Pomola is always angry with those who climb the summit of Ktaadn.

It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about.