I’ve been working my way through Walden. I think that two years in the woods did nothing other than make him very arrogant.

I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

But man’s capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried.

Though I like this:

I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust.