Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time."

In society you will not find health, but in nature. Unless our feet at least stood in the midst of nature, all our faces would bepale and livid. Society is always diseased, and the best is the most so.

At death our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart farther from us and are forgotten. Friends are as often brought nearer together as separated by death.

Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?

Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates.

It's not enough to be busy.

Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.