A familiar name cannot make a man less strange to me. It may be given to a savage who retains in secret his own wild title earnedin the woods. We have a wild savage in us, and a savage name is perchance somewhere recorded as ours.
If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.
Behold the difference between the Oriental and the Occidental. The former has nothing to do in this world; the latter is full of activity. The one looks in the sun until his eyes are put out; the other follows him prone in his westward course.
I was not born to be forced.
Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.
The man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.
A journal is a repository for all those fragmentary ideas and odd scraps of information that might otherwise be lost and which some day might lead to more “harmonious compositions.”
Where the most beautiful wild flowers grow, there mans spirit is fed and poets grow.
All men are children, and of one family.
He who walks alone, waits for no-one.
I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who have understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks,-who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering.
It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker.
There is one thought for the field, another for the house. I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be food for walkers, and will not warrant them to be palatable if tasted in the house.
Every sunset I witness inspires me with the desire to go to West as distant and as fair as that which the sun goes down. Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.
For in the wood these golden days Some leaf obeys its Maker’s call. And through their hollow aisles it plays With delicate touch the prelude of the Fall.
Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it’s on your record, you can never get rid of it.
If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care.
Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life.
Many men walk by day; few walk by night. It is a different season.
Wherever you have planted a seed, I am prepared to expect wonders.