The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?.

Simplify, simplify, simplify..

I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me..

As for conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that. Let not your right hand know what your left hand does in….

Truths and roses have thorns about them..

There may be something petty in a refined taste; it easily degenerates into effeminacy. It does not consider the broadest use. It is not content with….

The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions..

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time..

I have travelled a good deal in Concord..

find your eternity in each moment.

But it is rather derogatory that your dwelling-place should be only a neighborhood to a great city,--to live on an inclined plane.I do not like their….

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it..

Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic..

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man: wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morningwith a cup of warm c….

Nature is goodness crystallized..

The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not, and finish ….

Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress..

As far as our noblest hardwood forests are concerned, the animals, especially squirrels and jays, are our greatest and almost only benefactors. It i….

For the most part we stupidly confound one man with another. The dull distinguish only races or nations, or at most classes, but the wise man, indivi….

The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman..

Though the words Canada East on the map stretch over many rivers and lakes and unexplored wildernesses, the actual Canada, which might be the colored….