I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.

I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.

The Universal Soul, as it is called, has an interest in the stacking of hay, the foddering of cattle, and the draining of peat-meadows.

As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.