""We must have our bread." But what is our bread ? Is it baker's bread ? Methinks it should be very home-made bread."

"Here I am thirty-four years old, and yet my life is almost wholly unexpanded. How much is in the germ! "

"The traveller need not go out of the road to get as many as he wants; every bush and vine teems with palatable fruit."

"One day, when I went out to my wood-pile, or rather my pile of stumps, I observed two large ants, the one red, the other much larger and black, fiercely contending with one another..."

"The more I considered, the more the man seemed akin to the horse."

"One does not soon learn the trade of life. That one may work out a true life requires more art and delicate skill than any other work."

"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..."