Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.
One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate.
I love reform better than its modes.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.
There is always some accident in the best things, whether thoughts or expressions or deeds. The memorable thought, the happy expression, the admirable deed are only partly ours.
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made