“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”
“It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?’
“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”
“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 had not lived.”
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
“Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.”
“That government is best which governs least.”