It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows.

I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.

Long as I have lived, and many blasphemers as I have heard and seen, I have never yet heard or witnessed any direct and consciousblasphemy or irreverence; but of indirect and habitual, enough. Where is the man who is guilty of direct and personal insolence to Him that made him?

As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, "But what shall I do?" my answer is, "If you really wish to do anything, resign your office." When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished.

How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of acommon mint.