Henry David Thoreau

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the masses of men.

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

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.

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling, and spending their lives like serfs.

I should not obtrude my affairs so much on the notice of my readers if very particular inquiries had not been made by my townsmen concerning my mode of life.

I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

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

Friends... they cherish one another`s hopes. They are kind to one another`s dreams.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts.