Henry David Thoreau

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

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

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God’s hand, his brain as God’s brain, his purpose as God’s purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

Already know you that which you need.

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

Here’s the thing: the world is not going to issue you an engraved invitation to this life.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.