I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me.

The body can feed the body only.

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

To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of his existence.

Nothing but great antiquity can make graveyards interesting to me. I have no friends there.

They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates.

Ktaadnis an Indian word signifying highest land,... very few, even among backwoodsmen and hunters, have ever climbed it, andit will be a long time before the tide of fashionable travel sets that way.