. . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.

Christ is the prince of Reformers and Radicals.

Take Time by the forelock. It is also the safest part to take a serpent by.

For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman;... but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do.