“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.” Henry David Thoreau
“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.” Henry David Thoreau
“Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.” Henry David Thoreau
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” Henry David Thoreau
“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.” Henry David Thoreau
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” Henry David Thoreau
“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.” Henry David Thoreau
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.” Henry David Thoreau
“I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.” Henry David Thoreau
“It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?” Henry David Thoreau
“There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.” Henry David Thoreau
“A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.” Henry David Thoreau
“Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” Henry David Thoreau
“Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.” Henry David Thoreau
“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.” Henry David Thoreau
“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” Henry David Thoreau
“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.” Henry David Thoreau
“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” Henry David Thoreau
