“A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors”

“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. ”

“A man can suffocate on courtesy.”

“Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.”

“My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant.”

“I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.”

“Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.”

“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in”

“I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.”

“I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.”

“Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.”

“To a philosopher all news is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.”

“We should impart our courage and not our despair.”

“The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.”

“The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.”

“If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.”

“Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.”

“Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.”

“Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.”

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

“The true price of anything you do is the amount of time you exchange for it.”

“Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.”

“The perception of beauty is a moral test.”

“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”

“Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.”

“I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.”

“There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers.”

“Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after.”

“Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare”

“It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.”

“Be not simply good; be good for something.”

“Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?”

“Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.”

“let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature.”

“I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.”

“He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.”

“You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.”

“Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.”

“The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.”

“Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.”

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

“But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.”

“This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space.”

“For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.”

“Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.”

“We should come home from far, from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day, with new experience and character.”

“In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.”

“No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.”

“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”

“Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.”