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

There is no beginning too small.

The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.

This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it.

Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concretic layers of woodenness in the dead dry life of society...may unexpectedly come forth...to enjoy its perfect summer life at last!...Such is the character of that morrow which mere lapse of time can never make to dawn...Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well?

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.