Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends.
Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper.
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: "Dreamer, dream no more!"
Thus was my first year's life in the woods completed; and the second year was similar to it. I finally left Walden September 6th,1847.
For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel like home.
For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach ghosts wandring here and there Troop home to church-yards. . . . For fear lest day should look their shames upon, They willfully exile themselves from light, And must for aye consort with black brow'd night.
Thinking for yourself is the thing on which everything else depends.