The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.

It is remarkable, all that men can swallow. For a good ten minutes I read a newspaper. I allowed the spirit of an irresponsible man who chews and munches another's words in his mouth, and gives them out again undigested, to enter into me through my eyes.

Yes, I am going into the woods; I am going into the unity of all things.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.