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Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company. - Mark Twain

Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella. - Barbara Johnson

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes. - Thoreau

City life is millions of people being lonesome together. - Thoreau

How imperceptibly the first springing takes place! - Thoreau

He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair. -Thoreau

Do not despair of your life. You have force enough to overcome your obstacles. - Thoreau

I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. - Thoreau

If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he pretends to disown, behind him. - Thoreau

The spring advances in spite of snow and ice, and cold even. - Thoreau