Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake,I pray?

I have seen some whose consciences, owing undoubtedly to former indulgence, had grown to be as irritable as spoilt children, and at length gave them no peace. They did not know when to swallow their cud, and their lives of course yielded no milk.

A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.

If there is nothing new on the earth, still the traveler always has a resource in the skies. They are constantly turning a new page to view. The wind sets the types on this blue ground, and the inquiring may always read a new truth there.