Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers.

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.

If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.

Think of admitting the details of a single case of the criminal court into our thoughts, to stalk profanely through their very sanctum sanctorum for an hour, ay, for many hours! to make a very barroom of the mind's inmost apartment, as if for so long the dust of the street had occupied us,--the very street itself, with all its travel, its bustle, and filth, had passed through our thoughts' shrine! Would it not be an intellectual and moral suicide?

To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.

A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.