Henry David Thoreau : (16)

" I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life. " - Henry David Thoreau

" Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify. " - Henry David Thoreau

" There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. " - Henry David Thoreau

" What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. " - Henry David Thoreau

" I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one. " - Henry David Thoreau

" An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. " - Henry David Thoreau