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

Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements.

Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it.

Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.

We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.

Even trees do not die without a groan.

The discoveries which we make abroad are special and particular; those which we make at home are general and significant. The further off, the nearer the surface. The nearer home, the deeper.