Henry David Thoreau

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

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

As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.

Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven’t developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don’t know how to eliminate them effectively.

There is nothing to fear except fear it’s self.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Bravery is more important than perfection.- Kanye West

There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.