'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

It is but too easy to establish another durable and harmonious routine. Immediately all parts of nature consent to it. Only make something to take the place of something, and men will behave as if it was the very thing they wanted.

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

Many have believed that Walden reached quite through to the other side of the globe.

But it is rather derogatory that your dwelling-place should be only a neighborhood to a great city,--to live on an inclined plane.I do not like their cities and forts, with their morning and evening guns, and sails flapping in one's eye. I want a whole continent to breathe in, and a good deal of solitude and silence, such as all Wall Street cannot buy,--nor Broadway with its wooden pavement. I must live along the beach, on the southern shore, which looks directly out to sea,--and see what that great parade of water means, that dashes and roars, and has not yet wet me, as long as I have lived.

The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure.

I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future.