“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”

“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”

“Things do not change; we change.”

“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.”

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”

“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”

“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”

“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”

“The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.”

“All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.”

“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”

“What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”

“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.”

“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”

“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”

“This world is but canvas to our imaginations.”

“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”

“Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”

“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.”