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

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.

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.

A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.