Henry David Thoreau — "It is never too late to give up your prejudices."

"The universe is wider than our views of it."

"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in."

"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 ha…"

"I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so compa…"

"The gentleman is a man of leisure who knows how to use it."