Henry David Thoreau

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

There is no remedy for love, but to love more.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

When you know better you do better.

The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity does best discover vice, but adversity does best discover virtue.

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

When many demons are struggling inside you, the one that you feed is the one that will become the strongest. You alone are responsible for what you feed.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

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.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

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