"I have traveled a good deal in Concord."

"We are wont to imagine that it would be a pleasant pastime to be a potato and grow in the dark, but it is not so."

"I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so compa…"

"It's not what you get, but what you give that determines your true worth."

"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…"