There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness.

A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine.

In their daily life, all are braver than they know.

I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude.

For a companion, I require one who will make an equal demand on me with my own genius. Such a one will always be rightly tolerant.It is suicide, and corrupts good manners, to welcome any less than this. I value and trust those who love and praise my aspiration rather than my performance. If you would not stop to look at me, but look whither I am looking, and farther, then my education could not dispense with your company.

Thus was my first year's life in the woods completed; and the second year was similar to it. I finally left Walden September 6th,1847.

I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.