Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Dissent without action is consent.

I make myself rich by making my wants few.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.

Maturity is when all of your mirrors turn into windows.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

I have no time to be in a hurry.

Every oak tree started as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.

To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.

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

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

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

Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.

Strength is an empty shell.