God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

By one bait or another, Nature allures inhabitants into all her recesses.

Let your walks now be a little more adventurous.

As if there were safety in stupidity alone

Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?

I never yet knew the sun to be knocked down and rolled through a mud-puddle; he comes out honor-bright from behind every storm. Let us then take sides with the sun, seeing we have so much leisure.

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?