Let nothing come between you and the light.

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.

Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

Heal yourselves, doctors; by God I live.

No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring.

The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination,whose vast abdomens betray them.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.