Henry David Thoreau

• A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
• All good things are wild and free.
• All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
• Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations
• Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
• 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.
• Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
• Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
• Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.
• Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
• How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
• I cannot make my days longer, so I strive to make them better.
• I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
• I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dream, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
• If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
• Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
• It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
• It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
• Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
• Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
• Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
• Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
• The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
• The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
• The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.
• The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
• The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
• Things do not change; we change.
• To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
• True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
• What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
• You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.