"Je gagnai les bois parce que je voulais vivre suivant mûre réflexion, n’affronter que les actes essentiels de la vie."

"For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man ?"

"Dès le 6 octobre, en général, les feuilles commencent à tomber, en douches successives, après la gelée ou la pluie."

"There is, no doubt, a perfect analogy between the life of the human and that of the vegetable, both of the body and the mind."

"What poem is this of spring, so often repeated ! I am thrilled when I hear it spoken of..."

"It matters not what the clocks say or the attitudes and labors of men. Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me."

"Ne vous embarrassez point trop de vous procurer de nouvelles choses, soit en habits, soit en amis. Retournez les vieux, retournez à eux."

"Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old."

"He was bred to no profession," says Emerson ;"he never married; he lived alone; he never went to church; he never voted..."