"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life"Philosophy
"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!"Wisdom
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation"Philosophy
"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone"Money
"Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind"Wisdom
"I have never felt lonesome, or in the least oppressed by a sense of solitude"Solitude
"I love to be alone"Solitude
"A man may use as a part of his life as he will"Freedom
"Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection"Work
"None of the brute creation secures to herself what belongs to her"Nature
"I do not prefer one religion or philosophy to another"Faith
"Books are the treasured wealth of the world"Literature
"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts"Philosophy
"How much more admirable the Bhagvat Gita than all the ruins of the East!"Literature
"Nature never wears the same expression"Nature
"The morning brings back the heroic ages"Inspiration
"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in"Time
"Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?"Wisdom
"I desire to live deliberately"Philosophy
"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else"Life
"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes"Wisdom
"The poor inherit the earth"Philosophy
"I never lost a pound of flesh, nor a pound of spirit"Strength
"Nature is not fixed but fluid"Nature
"Let us not underrate the value of a fact"Truth
"The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable"Nature
"It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the tortured and despised follow"
"I went into the woods to live deliberately"Adventure
"There are nowadays professors of philosophy but not philosophers"Education
"Our life is frittered away by detail"Wisdom