Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Having reached the term of his natural life"; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life?

I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality.

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

Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted,but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth. It is astonishing how few facts of importance are added in a century to the natural history of any animal. The natural history of man himself is still being gradually written.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.