More quotes by Henry David Thoreau, Walden

"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book."
"Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations."
"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."
"Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid."
"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."