Henry David Thoreau

All good things are wild and free.

Things do not change; we change.

I have found repeatedly, of late years, that I cannot fish without falling a little in self respect.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him keep step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

It`s not what you look at that matters, it`s what you see.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Every part of nature teaches that the passing away of one life is the making room for another.

If Nature is our mother, then God is our father.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to lead the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.