But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.

I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.

For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.

There was something refreshingly and wildly musical to my ears in the very name of the white man's canoe, reminding me of Charlevoix and Canadian Voyageurs. The batteau is a sort of mongrel between the canoe and the boat, a fur-trader's boat.

The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.

All questions rely on the present for their solution. Time measures nothing but itself. The word that is written may be postponed,but not that on the lip. If this is what the occasion says, let the occasion say it.

When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey, etc, etc - I cannot but feel as I lived in a tamed, and, as it were, emasculated country.