Yet we must try the harder, the less the prospect of success.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.

Even trees do not die without a groan.

The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again.

The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.

The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past days,--mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small- clothes, out of date.

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.