In the wilderness is the salvation of the world.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

After all, I believe it is the style of thought entirely, and the style of expression, which makes the difference in books.

Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.

The mass of men are very easily imposed on. They have their runways in which they always travel, and are sure to fall into any pit or box-trap set therein.

I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.

Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever.