"The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right."

"I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways."

"If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the ea…"

"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer."

"The only antidote to materialism is simplicity."