Henry David Thoreau

“'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.”

“It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.”

“All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.”

“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”

“I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.”

“Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.”

“To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.”

“Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.”

“The heart is forever inexperienced.”

“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?”

“It is never too late to give up our prejudices.”

“Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.”

“God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.”

“In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.”

“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”

“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.”

“Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.”

“Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.”

“May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!”