Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came back with a new understanding of life.

The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.

I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood.

There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.

Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions nor advances will avail.... It is a drama in which the parties have no part to act.

Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.

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