Henry David Thoreau

Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

For we put the power in the people.

Tread softly, Breathe peacefully, Laugh hysterically.

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.

The sky was the color of hard crimson, dripping down a canvas, the moon splashed silver across red. Her soothing balm healing my soul in swathes of calmness, I breathe in her tides and let my body be washed ashore, lying in the sands of eternity.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

Wherever there is power there is age.

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.