More quotes by Henry David Thoreau, Walden

"A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself."
"Things do not change; we change."
"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."
"Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star."