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

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.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

You fail in your thoughts, or you prevail in your thoughts only.

Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.