I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.-- H. D. Thoreau
"I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life; to put to route all that was not life and not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived."-- H. D. Thoreau ("Walden")
"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all."-- Henry David Thoreau