I realized a school doesn't need a School Committee or Trustees or Governors or lumber or approved textbooks. All a school needs is a mind that sends and minds that receive. I shall teach my own students how to teach themselves. My own school. No buildings. Break out of the classroom prison. All I need is SKY. The Universe can be my classroom - the great vast world of the Concord countryside.

Nothing can shock a brave man but dullness.

Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.

The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.

When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance?

And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of green sweet corn boiled, with the addition of salt?

Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.