Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake,I pray?
Summer passes into autumn in some unimaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf.
The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate.
Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.
Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have some redeeming traits even to the eye.