More quotes by Henry David Thoreau, Walden

"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."
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."
"All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be."
"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."
"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book."