A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own natur….

He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds..

A man may travel fast enough and earn his living on the road..

I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory..

The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a very fe….

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority..

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It matters not what the clocks say or the attitude….

You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else..

We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship..

You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns..

For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdo….

I am a good horse to travel, but not from choice a roadster. The landscape-painter uses the figures of men to mark a road. He would not make that use….

When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?.

Nature spontaneously keeps us well. Do not resist her!.

It is tranquil people who accomplish much..

Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from ….

It is not easy to make our lives respectable by any course of activity. We must repeatedly withdraw into our shells of thought, like the tortoise, so….

The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get out of it..

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature..

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion..

I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves.