You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else.

The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

Many have believed that Walden reached quite through to the other side of the globe.

What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?

As for the complex ways of living, I love them not, however much I practice them. In as many places as possible, I will get my feet down to the earth.

I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.

The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not, and finish his labor with every day, relinquishing all claim to the produce of his fields, and sacrificing in his mind not only his first but last fruits also.