"Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made."
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."
"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."
"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book."
"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."
"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."