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

“Renew thyself completely each day.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Men have become the tools of their tools.”

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

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

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

“Wildness is the preservation of the World.”

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

“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. ”

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