The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.

The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements.

Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!

Thus was my first year's life in the woods completed; and the second year was similar to it. I finally left Walden September 6th,1847.

One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

You need not rest your reputation on the dinners you give.