Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.

Thus was my first year's life in the woods completed; and the second year was similar to it. I finally left Walden September 6th,1847.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone.

The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring.

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.

We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we.

The only free road, the Underground Railroad, is owned and managed by the Vigilant Committee. They have tunneled under the whole breadth of the land.