Henry David Thoreau

“I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.”

“Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.”

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

“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”

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

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”

“There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.”

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”

“Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.”

“Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.”

“The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.”

“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”

“Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.”

“Be not simply good - be good for something.”

“What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”

“That government is best which governs least.”

“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.”

“I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.”

“Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.”