| A | B |
| paradox | self-contradictory statement |
| aphorisms | a statement of a general truth, expressed in memorable language |
| Walt Whitman | whose most famous work "Leaves of Grass" |
| Emily Dickinson | whose known as the "Belle of Amherst" |
| Henry David Thoreau | wrote the book "Walden" |
| transcendentalism | a search for inner peace |
| philosophy | personal principles and beliefs |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Father of transcendentalism |
| "Self-Reliance" | an essay written for young people |
| "Waldon Pond" | about experience in waldon book |