Walden

"Pursue your passion, not your pension"

"The wilderness is healing"

"In the long run, success usually comes to those who hustle while they wait"

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions but follows religiously the new"

"The only obligation I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right"

"Civil disobedience is the answer to an unjust government"

"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life"

"Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money"

"The youth may build or plant or sail or do nothing but go idling along"

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination"

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

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams"

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

"Walden is dead and gone, and I awake"

"I have as much or more than I want"

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

"Most men appear never to have considered what a house is"

"All good things are wild and free"

"The indulgence of these propensities is inconsistent with the preservation of my higher nature"

"I found myself suddenly neighbor to the birds"

"Our life is frittered away by detail"

"There are nowadays professors of philosophy but not philosophers"

"I went into the woods to live deliberately"

"It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the tortured and despised follow"

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

"Let us not underrate the value of a fact"

"Nature is not fixed but fluid"

"I never lost a pound of flesh, nor a pound of spirit"

"The poor inherit the earth"

"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes"