Henry David Thoreau — "I have yet to hear a man confess that he had no time for a walk."

"We are told that an Indian cannot be made to feel a slight. I confess I have never found an Indian who could not."

"Simplify, simplify."

"Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind."

"Law never made men a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice."

"I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will but live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler nations a…"