Henry David Thoreau

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

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

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

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it.

Work is always an antidote to depression.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!

We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead – and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

It doesn’t matter that your dream came true if you spent your whole life sleeping.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author.

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money?

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.