Even trees do not die without a groan.

Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, which in others are luxuries merely and in others still are entirely unknown.

If men were to be destroyed and the books they have written were to be transmitted to a new race of creatures, in a new world, what kind of record would be found in them of so remarkable a phenomenon as the rainbow?

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.

Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.