All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

We rarely meet a man who can tell us any news which he has not read in a newspaper, or been told by his neighbor; and, for the most part, the only difference between us and our fellow is that he has seen the newspaper, or been out to tea, and we have not.

There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

Wherever a man separates from the multitude, and goes his own way in this mood, there indeed is a fork in the road, though ordinary travelers may see only a gap in the paling. His solitary path across lots will turn out the higher way of the two.