The only free road, the Underground Railroad, is owned and managed by the Vigilant Committee. They have tunneled under the whole breadth of the land..

The commonest and cheapest sounds, as the barking of a dog, produce the same effect on fresh and healthy ears that the rarest music does. It depends ….

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth..

They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They….

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..

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..

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….

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

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….

If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he pretends to disown, behind him..