In society you will not find health, but in nature. Unless our feet at least stood in the midst of nature, all our faces would bepale and livid. Society is always diseased, and the best is the most so.

I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.

When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc... I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural.

Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.

From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality.

The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting.

In my walks I would fain return to my senses.