It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time.

Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie; and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

A temple, you know, was anciently "an open place without a roof," whose walls served merely to shut out the world and direct the mind toward heaven; but a modern meeting-house shuts out the heavens, while it crowds the world into still closer quarters.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.

But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes a very centre of civilization to you: "Home is home, be it never so homely."