I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves.

The intercourse of the sexes, I have dreamed, is incredibly beautiful, too fair to be remembered. I have had thoughts about it, but they are among the most fleeting and irrecoverable in my experience.

The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.