Henry David Thoreau

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."

"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."

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

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

"What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook."

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

"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters."

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined."

"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes."

"I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder."

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

"On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world."

"This world is but a canvas to our imagination."

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."

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

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined."

"Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day."

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

"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."