“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”

“A journal is a record of experiences and growth, not a preserve of things well done or said.” ”

“Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.”

“Every man looks upon his wood pile with a sort of affection.”

“The more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think the same is true of human beings.”

“the mission of men there seems to be,like so many busy demons,to drive the forest out of the country.”

“Sobre todo, no podemos permitirnos el lujo de no vivir en el presente.”

“I believe that every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food, and from much food of any kind.”

“The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.”

“A lawyer's truth is not Truth. It is consistency, or consistent expediency”

“Many men walk by day; few walk by night. It is a different season.”

“Which is the best man to deal with,-he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?”

“Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave.”

“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

“It has come to this, that the lover of art is one, and the lover of nature another, though true art is but the expression of our love of nature.”

“I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees”

“Truths and roses have thorns about them.”

“Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.”

“Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.”

“Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.”

“Morning is when I'm awake, and there is dawn in me.”

“Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried it.”

“Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?”

“To affect the quality of the day - that is the highest of the arts.”