More quotes by Henry David Thoreau, Walden

"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."
"I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics."
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."
"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations."
"All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be."