Henry David Thoreau

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

"Walden"

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

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

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.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

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

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

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

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

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