It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time.

What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact.

We need the tonic of wildness.

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.