Walden

"Reality is as vivid and as bright as a dream, and yet I seem to live in a dream."

"Things do not change; we change."

"I love a broad margin to my life."

"The youth may build or plant or sail only for half a year is free, and the rest of the year he must work."

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

"Shall we always study the Bible, and never once the book which Nature has written?"

"My friends! why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?"

"The way to health is an extraordinary lightness and vigour of step."

"Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself."

"If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself."

"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."

"I am convinced that to maintain oneself on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely."

"We cannot live only for ourselves."

"Live so that the maxim of your action could become a natural law for all."

"Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice."

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."

"The true improvements of mankind are done by the obedience of the present moment."

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

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them."

"One world at a time."

"The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimension."

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

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

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

"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes."

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

"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."

"All good things are wild, and free, yet how few enjoy them."

"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence."

"Nature never wears the same expression twice."