“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.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden