True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life as we can.

Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.

Of course it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither. I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.... What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods?

The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.

The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.