Of what significance are the things you can forget.
When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple.
A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.
Let things alone; let them weigh what they will; let them soar or fall.