Henry David Thoreau — "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes."

"If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the ea…"

"I perceive that, when an acorn and a chestnut fall side by side, the one does not remain long in the mould of the other, but makes its own bed, and pushes itself away the shortest and surest way, by i…"

"I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks. I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things which I did. They say that characters were…"

"The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star."

"I would rather be a wood-chopper than a professor of ethics."