As we looked up in silence to those distant lights, we were reminded that it was a rare imagination which first taught that the stars are worlds, and….

There is a certain class of unbelievers who sometimes ask me such questions as, if I think that I can live on vegetable food alone; and to strike at ….

Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness..

The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another..

I think it will be found that he who speaks with most authority on a given subject is not ignorant of what has been said by his predecessors. He will….

The Universal Soul, as it is called, has an interest in the stacking of hay, the foddering of cattle, and the draining of peat-meadows..

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it do….

I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful..

I have heard a good many pretend that they are going to die; or that they have died, for aught that I know. Nonsense! I'll defy them to do it. They h….

A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by pure love. Who can….

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day..

How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character?.

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world..

But it is fit that the Past should be dark; though the darkness is not so much a quality of the past as of tradition. It is not adistance of time, bu….

What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day….

To the innocent there are neither cherubim nor angels..

The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively,as if the speaker ha….

And now that we have returned to the desultory life of the plain, let us endeavor to import a little of that mountain grandeur into it. We will remem….

We saw men haying far off in the meadow, their heads waving like the grass which they cut. In the distance the wind seemed to bend all alike..

Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet..

Concord River is remarkable for the gentleness of its current, which is scarcely perceptible, and some have referred to its influence the proverbial ….