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.
Civil disobedience, Walden
Walden, Chapter 2: Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
1854
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