One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

What a battle a man must fight everywhere to maintain his standing army of thoughts, and march with them in orderly array throughthe always hostile country! How many enemies there are to sane thinking! Every soldier has succumbed to them before he enlists for those other battles.

Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which would be more disreputable.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

If Nature is our mother, then God is our father.

If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!