Henry David Thoreau

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.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.

There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.

Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then withdrawn, and the curtain falls. And then the sun goes down, and long the afterglow gives light.

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.

Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must have such a one as their neighbors have. ... Shall we always study to obtain more, and not sometimes be content with less?

No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.

Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.

Wherever men have lived, there is a story to be told

October is the month for painted leaves. Their rich glow now flashes round the world. As fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a bright tint just before they fall, so the year near its setting. October is its sunset sky; November the later twilight.

To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.

Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.

I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.

He who owns little is little owned.

We must have infinite faith in each other.

The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls - the _x000D_ worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.

Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

When we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.