Henry David Thoreau

We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.

If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point.

The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. A companion with whom I was sailing one very windy but bright moonlight night, when the stars were few and faint, thought that a man could get along with them,-though he was considerably reduced in his circumstances,-that they were a kind of bread and cheese that never failed.

It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Equally important is the job you are working at.

When a man truly commits, the universe will conspire to assure his success.

The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter

Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?

Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.

In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts.

I lingered most about the fireplace, as the most vital part of the house.

I saw deep in the eyes of the animals the human soul look out upon me. I saw where it was born deep down under feathers and fur, or condemned for a while to roam four-footed among the brambles,I caught the clinging mute glance of the prisoner and swore that I would be faithful.

Before the land rose out of the ocean, and became dry land, chaos reigned; and between high and low water mark, where she is partially disrobed and rising, a sort of chaos reigns still, which only anomalous creatures can inhabit.

Rise free from care before the dawn and seek adventure. Let the noon find you by other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at home. There are no larger fields than these, no worthier games than may here be played.

A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.

I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. [Like they say, 'Every cloud has a silver lining'...so if you are patient, expect, anticipate, look and work for some good to come from the cloud, you will be rewarded eventually!]

What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.

They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.

Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.