Henry David Thoreau — "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is c…"

"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."

"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."

"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…"

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler."

"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…"