Thoreau rejects many things as inessential or unimportant. list three things that were important to him, citing specific lines from the text to support your answer.

Based on Thoreau's book entitled Walden, truth is important to him when he said "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." In Walden, he also said simplicity is important in the quote, "Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say ... " He viewed life without capitalism as important in the essay "Life Without Principle", stating 'In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.'