The question is not what you look at – but how you look & whether you see.

New earths, new themes expect us.

What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.

For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman;... but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do.

Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.

Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.