Henry David Thoreau

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul’s estate.

If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.

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

Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

There are charms made only for distance admiration.

It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

If you can’t forgive and forget, pick one.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

The billiard table is better than the doctor.