The sun is but a morning star.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.

The newspapers are the ruling power. Any other government is reduced to a few marines at Fort Independence. If a man neglects to read the Daily Times, government will go down on its knees to him, for this is the only treason these days.

The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.

What is most striking in the Maine wilderness is the continuousness of the forest, with fewer open intervals or glades than you had imagined. Except the few burnt lands, the narrow intervals on the rivers, the bare tops of the high mountains, and the lakes and streams, the forest is uninterrupted.

It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.