"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."
"Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star."
"I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune."
"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."
"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."