Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
Quotes from the book:
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
(CONCLUSION)
"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."
(ECONOMY)
"I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that 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."
(CONCLUSION)
"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations."
(READING)
"I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
(SOLITUDE)
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."
(CONCLUSION)
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
(CONCLUSION)
"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."
(ECONOMY)
"I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that 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."
(CONCLUSION)
"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations."
(READING)
"I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
(SOLITUDE)
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."
(CONCLUSION)