Henry David Thoreau

“Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.”

“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”

“The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.”

“Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.”

“Faith never makes a confession.”

“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.”

“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”

“A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.”

“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”

“What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.”

“Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.”

“Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”

“Be not simply good - be good for something.”

“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.”

“As for doing good that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.”

“I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.”

“How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.”

“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”

“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?”

“Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.”

“Being is the great explainer.”

“There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.”

“'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.”

“It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.”