“Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.”

“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”

“In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.”

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.”

“In the woods is perpetual youth. In the woods we return to faith and reason.”

“Rectitude is a perpetual victory, celebrated not by cries of joy but by serenity, which is joy fixed or habitual.”

“The lover seeks in marriage his private felicity and perfection, with no prospective end; and nature hides in his happiness her own ends, namely, progeny, or the perpetuity of the race.”