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I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.
You need not rest your reputation on the dinners you give.
Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection.
The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.
A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.
It is good even to be a fisherman in summer and in winter.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?
Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.
I have learned that even the smallest house can be a home.
We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.
We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.
What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.
Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives.
Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.
Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.
Time hides no treasures; we want not its then, but its now.
This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle!
It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.
What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?
In sane moments we regard only the facts, the case that is.
Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.
Why should not a poet's cat be winged as well as his horse?
I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.
We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto.
It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.
My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks.
There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.
Beware of any profession for which you must buy new clothes.
I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.
English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.
I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.
Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Education makes a straight ditch of a free meandering brook.
There are times when we have had enough even of our Friends.
There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen.
There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.
I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.
Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.
This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space.
A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.
Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?
In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.
Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring.
The little things in life are as interesting as the big ones.