To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!

My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself; but for my faith and aspiration I have respect. It is from these that I speak.

The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased.

In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.