Henry David Thoreau

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit…

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate…

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day…

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed…

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love…

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it…

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most…

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest…

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and…

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not…

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men…

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things…

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his…

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear…

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not…