Walden

"Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights."

"Sleep is a state in which a man shuts his eyes and forgets his work."

"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."

"No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof."

"I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear."

"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."

"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on."

"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."

"The winter of the human spirit is what we must avoid and resist with all our strength."

"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment."

"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."

"Let your life lightly dance with the seasons."

"For every thousand hacking at the branches of evil, there is one striking at the root."

"I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life."

"All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature."

"Men have become the tools of their tools."

"I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud."

"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations."

"The only true America is that country where you are at liberty to pursue such a life."

"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion."

"In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty."

"The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secret of things."

"I have never felt lonesome, or in the least oppressed by a sense of solitude."

"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in."

"The farmer is endeavoring to solve the problem of livelihood by the same method that the lawyer uses to get rich."

"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, that actually has heart and meaning."

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer."

"I am convinced that to maintain oneself on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime."

"The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."