Henry David Thoreau

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask.

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

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

I was born upon thy bank, river, my blood flows in thy stream, and thou meanderest forever. At the bottom of my dream.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

I answer the heroic question Death where is thy sting? It is here in my heart and mind and memories

There are no have-to’s, just choices.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!

There is a hush over all Europe, nay, over all the world. Alas! it is the hush of suspense, and in many lands it is the hush of fear. Listen! No, listen carefully, I think I hear somethingyes, there it was quite clear. Dont you hear it? It is the tramp of armies crunching the gravel of the paradegrounds, splashing through rain-soaked fields, the tramp of two million German soldiers and more than a million Italiansgoing on maneuversyes, only on maneuvers!

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.