“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.

It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.

Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.

Wildness is the preservation of the World.

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.

I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.

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

A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

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

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.