I once found a kernel of corn in the middle of a deep wood by Walden, tucked in behind a lichen on a pine, about as high as my head, either by a crow or a squirrel. It was a mile at least from any corn-field.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? Would you have had him wait till that time came?--till you and I came over to him?

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.