"Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplici…"

"Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk."

"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 ha…"

"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."

"Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!"