Walden

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else"

"I desire to live deliberately"

"Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?"

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

"The morning brings back the heroic ages"

"Nature never wears the same expression"

"How much more admirable the Bhagvat Gita than all the ruins of the East!"

"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts"

"Books are the treasured wealth of the world"

"I do not prefer one religion or philosophy to another"

"None of the brute creation secures to herself what belongs to her"

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

"A man may use as a part of his life as he will"

"I love to be alone"

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

"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"

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

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation"

"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!"

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life"