Henry David Thoreau

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

There is no remedy for love, but to love more.

We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler’s cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.

Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.

The dice of God are always loaded.

Think with your whole body.

Tomorrow is always another day to make things right.

The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

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.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity to act despite our fears.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world–and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative expression of your talent, that is the spark that creates affluence. Expressing your talents to fulfill needs creates unlimited wealth and abundance.