Henry David Thoreau

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

The stars are the apexes of what triangles!

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

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

The reward of one’s duty is the power to fulfill another.

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

Sometimes if I see negative things it really doesn’t faze me, because you’ve got to be tough and you’ve got to be you.

There are no have-to’s, just choices.

No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.

Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.

By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.

If you value a man’s regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper – and despise it.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.