"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."
"He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair."
"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."
"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success."
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."