Henry David Thoreau

"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."

"Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live."

"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty."

"It's not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always."

"Men are born to succeed, not to fail."

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."

"The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them."

"Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience."

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

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."

"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."

"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success."

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

"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."

"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust."

"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."

"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."

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

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."