Walden

"There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted."

"Morning brings back the heroic ages."

"Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection."

"Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things."

"I hear America singing."

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, he will meet with success."

"The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation."

"Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion."

"I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot."

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

"The only wealth is life."

"Nature never wears the same expression twice."

"I love a broad margin to my life."

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams."

"Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances."

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."

"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes."

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately."

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify."

"Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion."

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

"The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives."

"There is a certain advantage in owning nothing."

"I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born."

"By living deliberately, you sharpen the tools of perception."

"The true kingdoms are within you, and all the externals are merely shadows and dust."

"Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion."

"There's nothing in the world that interests me more than myself."

"The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad."