Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.

We need the tonic of wildness.

People seldom hit what they do not aim at.

Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.

To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in the common sense,it contains only enduring and essential truth, the I and you, the here and there, the now and then, being omitted. Either time or rare wisdom writes it.

March to the beat of your own drummer.

I have travelled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me tobe doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.... The twelve labors of Hercules were trifling in comparison with those which my neighbors have undertaken; for they were only twelve, and had an end; but I could never see that these men slew or captured any monster or finished any labor.