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?

Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.

What a fool he must be who thinks that his El Dorado is anywhere but where he lives.

The order of things should be reversed; the seventh day should be the day of toil...and the other six his Sabbath of the affections and the soul, in which to range this widerspread garden, and drink in the soft influences and sublime revelations of Nature.

If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention

My Friend is that one whom I can associate with my choicest thought.

We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.