Henry David Thoreau — "Live your life, do your work, then take your hat."

"Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end."

"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion."

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

"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."

"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…"