The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life w... - Henry David Thoreau, Walden

"Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid."

"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."

"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."

"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations."