1. Walden, or Life in the Woods
Henry David Thoreau

3. from Economy
“I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits…”

4. from Economy
“There is some of the same fitness in a man’s building his own house that there is in a bird’s building its own nest… But alas! We do like the cowbirds and cuckoos, which lay their eggs in nests which other birds have built, and cheer no traveler with their chattering and unmusical notes.”

5. from Where I Lived
“I wanted to live deep and suck out the marrow of life…”
“Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more then his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!”

6. from Solitude
“I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another”

7. from The Bean Field
“I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more I wanted. They attached me to the earth, and so I got strength like Antaeus.”

8. from Brute Neighbors
“…while the battle was raging; internecine war; the red republicans on the one hand, and the black imperialists on the others.”
“The more you think of it the less the difference.”

9. from Brute Neighbors
“…a man against a loon. Suddenly your adversary’s checker disappears beneath the board, and the problem is to place yours nearest to where his will appear again.

10. from Conclusion
“The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!”