English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.

For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman;... but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do.

The eye is the jewel of the body.

I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is.

A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.

The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear theatmosphere of smoke.

Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers.