Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

Let your walks now be a little more adventurous.

The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!

Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.

Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once,-which would make him see green, and, if he slept, dream that he heard the wind sough among the pines.

I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake,I pray?