Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

There is a slumbering subterranean fire in nature which never goes out, and which no cold can chill.

Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.

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.

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 American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow,-one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness.

Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.