Henry David Thoreau

“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.”

“Eternity is in every moment.”

“It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?”

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

“If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, that is your success.”

“All good things are wild and free.”

“I would rather sit in the open air, for no dust gathers on the grass.”

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”

“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”

“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”

“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?”

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”

“We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.”

“Only that day dawns to which we are awake.”

“There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”

“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”

“The more you own, the more it owns you.”