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.
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.
As A Single Footstep Will Not Make A Path On The Earth, So A Single Thought Will Not Make A Pathway In The Mind. To Make A Deep Physical Path, We Walk Again And Again. To Make A Deep Mental Path, We Must Think Over And Over The Kind Of Thoughts We Wish To Dominate Our Lives.
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.