Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men, generally, under such a govern...
Si vous voulez convaincre un homme qu'il agit mal, agissez bien. Mais ne vous souciez pas de le convaincre. Les hommes croient ce qu'ils voient. Alors, donnez-leur à voir.
It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.
Any fool can make a ruleAnd any fool will mind it.
'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
He has no time to be anything but a machine. How can he remember well his ignorance—which his growth requires—who has so often to use his knowledge? We should feed and clothe him gratuitously sometime...
We are but faint-hearted crusaders...our expeditions are but tours...half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest walks, perchance, in the spirit of stirring adventure,...
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Thoreau the Patron Saint of Swamps because he enjoyed being in them and writing about them said, my temple is the swamp… When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most im...
The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment! Nature and human life...
By all kinds of traps and sign-boards, threatening the extreme penalty of the divine law, exclude such trespassers from the only ground which can be sacred to you. It is so hard to forget what it is w...
What is once well done is done forever.