The tavern will compare favorably with the church.

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time."

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.