More quotes by Henry David Thoreau, Walden

"Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune."