I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancyfor building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me.

The only danger in Friendship is that it will end.

The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that we loiter about the actual and so-called practical.

. . . I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days. . . .

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

Such is beauty ever,-neither here nor there, now nor then,-neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to admire.