Henry David Thoreau

“When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable, and to the citizen, most dismal swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place - a sanctum sanctorum. The...”

“Colour, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.”

“Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.”

“We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.”

“The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.”

“What a man thinks of himself, that is what determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”

“Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.”

“Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.”

“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”

“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand. ... Simplify, simplify.”

“Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.”

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

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

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

“I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.”

“It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak, and another to hear.”

“Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.”

“It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.”

“Beware all enterprises that require new clothes.”

“Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.”