Henry David Thoreau

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

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.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don’t know anything and can’t read.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

I want someone with the proven strength to persevere, someone who knows this job and takes it seriously, someone who understands that the issues a president faces are not black and white and cannot be boiled down to 140 characters.

In the word of no master am I bound to believe.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.

Danger – if you meet it promptly and without flinching – you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it. Theres another Chinese saying about their country which is much more modernit dates only from the fourth century. This is the saying: The tail of China is large and will not be wagged. I like that one. The British democracy approves the principles of movable party heads and unwaggable national tails. It is due to the working of these important forces that I have the honour to be addressing you at this moment.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

When the romance is gone, if it’s always you left searching for it, maybe it’s time to stop looking, and start searching for someone new, and start a new romantic journey.

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word.

I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.

The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.

For every why he had a wherefore.