Henry David Thoreau

“Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.”

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.”

“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path we walk and walk again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”

“Those whom we can love, we can hate to others we are indifferent.”

“The language of excitement is at best picturesque; merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.”

“Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.”

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”

“If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.”

“Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.”

“The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.”

“In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.”

“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”

“I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”

“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.”

“The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”

“No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.”

“Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!”

“I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.”

“It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.”

“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.”

“Dreams are the touchstones of our character.”

“Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.”

“I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”