He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days... - Henry David Thoreau

"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."

"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."

"It's not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always."

"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."

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."