I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.

I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk at the eleventh hour of four o'clock in the afternoon, too late to redeem the day, when the shades of night were already beginning to be mingled with the daylight, have felt as if I had committed some sin to be atoned for.

So near along life's stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources.

The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that theyare thieves.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

A man has not seen a thing who has not felt it.