But, on more accounts than one, I had had enough of moose-hunting. I had not come to the woods for this purpose, nor had I foreseen it, though I had been willing to learn how the Indian manvred; but one moose killed was as good, if not as bad, as a dozen.

It is but too easy to establish another durable and harmonious routine. Immediately all parts of nature consent to it. Only make something to take the place of something, and men will behave as if it was the very thing they wanted.

Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.

When we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.

The world laughs in flowers.

In society you will not find health, but in nature. Unless our feet at least stood in the midst of nature, all our faces would bepale and livid. Society is always diseased, and the best is the most so.

If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on me as an idler.