I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.

My profession is to always find God in nature.

I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up.

It is a momentous fact that a man may be good, or he may be bad; his life may be true, or it may be false; it may be either a shame or a glory to him. The good man builds himself up; the bad man destroys himself.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.