One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of all fiction.

Man is a piece of the universe made alive.

In the woods is perpetual youth.

If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.

The finest poetry was first experience.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.

The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

Look sharply after your thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual task, disappear; and you shall never find that perception again; never, I say-but perhaps years, ages, and I know not what events and worlds may lie between you and its return.