Henry David Thoreau

It takes two to speak truth – one to speak, and another to hear.

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.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake . . . by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.

Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Practice is this life, and realization is this life, and this life is revealed right here and now.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare. While he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

It’s not whether you get knocked down, its whether you get back up.

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.

Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.