Henry David Thoreau

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

The stars are the apexes of what triangles!

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Always two there are, no more, no less. A master and an apprentice.

That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

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

Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.