It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods.

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.

There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine,... I proposed to make excursions to Mount Ktaadn, the second highest mountain in New England, about thirty miles distant, and to some of the lakes of the Penobscot, either alone or with such company as I might pick up there.

The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased.