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

We must have infinite faith in each other.

What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!

There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.

I once found a kernel of corn in the middle of a deep wood by Walden, tucked in behind a lichen on a pine, about as high as my head, either by a crow or a squirrel. It was a mile at least from any corn-field.

It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the deliberate reader. To the practical they will be common sense, and to the wise wisdom; as either the traveler may wet his lips, or an army may fill its water-casks at a full stream.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.