Henry David Thoreau — "What does it mean to be a philosopher? It means to be able to say, 'I have seen …"

"I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and I threw them out the window in …"

"The more you know, the less you need."

"Sometimes I almost think that I am a pagan, and that I would rather worship the sun than any other god."

"However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in par…"

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul will grow sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have …"