The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.
Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.
There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.
There is more religion in men’s science, than there is science in their religion.
Spring-an experience in immortality.
One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.
To be awake is to be alive.
Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.
Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.
Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to be well, we should not be sick.
Morning glory is the best name, it always refreshes me to see it.
Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
The sun is but a morning star.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?
If you give money, spend yourself with it.
The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.
The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness.
But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes a very centre of civilization to you: “Home is home, be it never so homely.”