I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

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 man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.