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?

Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.

Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!

It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.

All questions rely on the present for their solution. Time measures nothing but itself. The word that is written may be postponed,but not that on the lip. If this is what the occasion says, let the occasion say it.

While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.