Henry David Thoreau

I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

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

To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.

We’re cool for the summer.

I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

The genius of the American people is Self-Reliance.

I think it’s the way you sparkle when you talk about the things you love.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

Nothing’s funnier to me than laughing at myself.

I’m slipping. I’m made of departed dreams and a stubborn fog that feels nothing like a veil.

Sometimes our idea of luxuries are our client’s ideas of necessities. You might think having a helicopter pad in the back garden, 20 housekeepers and two tennis coaches is over the top. But for them it’s like you buying a sandwich.

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you’ll be taught.

Things that seemed simple and superfluous had some meaning, maybe it wasn’t a great meaning, it didn’t shake the world…

The satisfaction that arises from honest accomplishment is of far more value in the promotion of human happiness than the thrill that comes with the realization of materialistic aspirations.

I think; therefore I am.

I attribute whatever I may have been able to accomplish in life far more to my wife than to anything else and to everything else put together. But I cannot flatter myself that I found her because I was a ‘good picker’, I believe profoundly that we are guided, led, in such momentous matters.

I am what I am Are you what you are or What?