Henry David Thoreau

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant’s truce between virtue and vice.

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

Our own life has to be our message.

A man is related to all nature.

I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

It doesn’t matter that your dream came true if you spent your whole life sleeping.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one’s own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

Just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who think diffenrently…

The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.