The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours ... but is itself ….

Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs..

The United States have a coffle of four millions of slaves. They are determined to keep them in this condition; and Massachusettsis one of the confed….

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives i….

The wildest dreams of wild men, even, are not the less true, though they may not recommend themselves to the sense which is most common among English….

Live the life you've dreamed..

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry..

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such..

At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house..

We go on dating from Cold Fridays and Great Snows; but a little colder Friday, or greater snow would put a period to man's existence on the globe..

I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditat….

But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself..

My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself; but for my faith and aspiration I have respect. It is from thes….

Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment's comparison with this,….

If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law..

A simple woman down in Tyngsborough, at whose house I once stopped to get a draught of water, when I said, recognizing the bucket, that I had stopped….

Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour..

The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude..

Many have believed that Walden reached quite through to the other side of the globe..

I am amused to see from my window here how busily a man has divided and staked off his domain. God must smile at his puny fences running hither and t….

The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard ….