Henry David Thoreau

I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

The cost of a thing is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

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