Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Nature is full of genius, and it often disguises itself as random force.
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Things do not change; we change.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Our life is frittered away by detail.
Men have become the tools of their tools.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.
The only way to deal with this world is to find your way through it.
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
In wildness is the preservation of the world.
The youth gets together to make a name for themselves.
If we were all like Thoreau, the world would be a better place.
To live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.
You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Your great adventure is waiting in the woods.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Life is not about finding yourself. Its about creating yourself.
To be awake is to be alive.
The world is but a canvas to our imagination.
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
I would fain be at ease, and not to be anxious.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The best intelligence is that which is glad, not that which is wise.
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.
Some are able to voyage to the moon, yet find no happiness in their own homes.
Silence is the great articulator.
I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man; wine is not so noble a liquor.
There is no greater sin than wasting time.
What we can do is make life measurably more beautiful.
A man may be so bold as to take tranqil comfort in his own soul.
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature.
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
When I hear music, I fear no danger; I am invulnerable.
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.