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Ah dear nature - the mere remembrance, after a short forgetfulness, of the pine woods! I come to it as a hungry man to a crust of bread. - Thoreau

Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear. - Thoreau

What is once well done is done forever. - Thoreau

The sun is but a morning star. - Thoreau

Nothing stands up more free from blame in this world than a pine tree. - Thoreau

Thank God, man cannot as yet fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth! - Thoreau

We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still. - Thoreau

I love to see a clear crystalline water flowing out of a swamp over white sand and decayed wood, spring-like. - Thoreau

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to their graves with the song still in them. - Thoreau

The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from. - Thoreau