Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.

A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return.

You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring.

I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.