Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness..

All that is told of the sea has a fabulous sound to an inhabitant of the land and all its products have a certain fabulous quality, as if they belong….

Much is published, but little printed..

Every gazette brings accounts of the untutored freaks of the wind,--shipwrecks and hurricanes which the mariner and planter acceptas special or gener….

The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination,whose vast abdomens….

When a man dies he kicks the dust..

He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behavior as well as by application.….

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness..

There is no just and serene criticism as yet..

Sell your clothes- keep your thoughts..

We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the m….

With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their….

Rise free from care before the dawn and seek adventure. Let the noon find you by other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at home. There a….

That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience..

What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong that a little gladness may not transgress..

White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light.... They are too pure to have a market value;they contain no muc….

Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time.".

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root..

Simplicity is the peak of civilization..

As a man grows older, his ability to sit still and follow indoor occupations increases. He grows vespertinal in his habits as theevening of life appr….

Wherever men have lived, there is a story to be told.