How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
In wildness is the preservation of the world.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.
Truths and roses have thorns about them.
I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Men have become the tools of their tools.
The universe is wider than our views of it.
What is once well done is done forever.