Henry David Thoreau

“How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!”

“Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.”

“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”

“In wildness is the preservation of the world.”

“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”

“If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.”

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”

“I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.”

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”

“We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.”

“Truths and roses have thorns about them.”

“I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.”

“It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.”

“Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.”

“An unclean person is universally a slothful one.”

“No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.”

“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.”

“Men have become the tools of their tools.”

“The universe is wider than our views of it.”

“What is once well done is done forever.”