In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it.

Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.

Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time."

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.

The inhabitants of Canada appeared to be suffering between two fires,--the soldiery and the priesthood.