“It is never too late to give up your prejudices”

“It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.”

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”

“...for my greatest skill has been to want but little.”

“I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.”

“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.”

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”

“Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.”

“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”

“If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.”

“It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?”

“I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.”

“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”

“Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.”

“The universe is wider than our views of it.”

“I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next. ”

“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”

“Wildness is the preservation of the World.”

“The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.”

“Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.”

“Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.”

“Men have become the tools of their tools.”

“Men are born to succeed, not to fail.”

“We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.”

“We are constantly invited to be what we are.”

“Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.”

“I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.”

“What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?”

“If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.”

“I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it's gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.”

“I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.”

“Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.”

“It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.”

“That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. ”

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.”

“I make myself rich by making my wants few.”

“Renew thyself completely each day.”

“What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.”

“I have a room all to myself; it is nature.”

“This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.”

“The heart is forever inexperienced.”

“In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood”

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”

“Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.”

“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”

“The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.”

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.”

“To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.”

“Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.”