| Term | Definition |
|---|
| "Hitch your wagon to a star." | Emerson |
| "For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labor of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living." | Thoreau |
| "I heartily accept the motto, 'That government is best which governs least.' " | Thoreau |
| "If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, tho' he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door." | Emerson |
| "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of the little minds." | Emerson |
| "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." | Emerson |
| "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." | Thoreau |
| "I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beach-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines." | Thoreau |
| "There is properly no history, only biography." | Emerson |
| "Whoso would be a man must be a noncomformist." | Emerson |
| "I once had a sparrpw alight on my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn." | Thoreau |
| "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,-that is genius." | Emerson |
| "The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it." | Emerson |
| "I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." | Thoreau |
| "Men have become the tools of their tools." | Thoreau |
| "Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members." | Emerson |
| "Language is fossil poetry." | Emerson |
| "The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation." | Thoreau |
| "The art of writing consists in putting two things together that are unlike and that belong togetherlike a horse & cart." | Emerson |
| "The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one." | Emerson |
| "Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him." | Thoreau |
| "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." | Thoreau |
| "So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours." | Emerson |
| "It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself." | Emerson |
| "He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere." | Emerson |
| "The education of the will is the object of our existence." | Emerson |
| "Goodness is the only investment that never fails." | Thoreau |
| "He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power of the greatest obstacle." | Thoreau |
| "Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads" | Thoreau |
| "It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things." | Thoreau |
| "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison." | Thoreau |
| "The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready." | Thoreau |
| "I should not talk so much about myself were there anybody else whom I knew as well." | Thoreau |
| "Always do what you are afraid to do. " | Emerson |
| "Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait." | Emerson |
| "If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me." | Emerson |
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