What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet.

I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude.

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

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

Perhaps anxious politicians may prove that only seventeen white men and five negroes were concerned in the late enterprise; but their very anxiety to prove this might suggest to themselves that all is not told. Why do they still dodge the truth? They are so anxious because of a dim consciousness of the fact, which they do not distinctly face, that at least a million of the free inhabitants of the United States would have rejoiced if it had succeeded. They at most only criticise the tactics.