I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till

I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. – John Muir, 1913, in Linnie Marsh Wolfe, ed., John of the Mountains: The Unpublis

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