Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Quotes

• “A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any othe...”
• “I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensiv...”
• “Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instan...”
• “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could...”
• “When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence,...”
• “Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where w...”
• “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 t...”
• “Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”
• “Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
• “All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.”
• “How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
• “Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.”
• “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
• “As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
• “I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.”
• “Things do not change; we change.”