Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty."

"He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence."

"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."

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

"Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still."

"Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams."

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

"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."

"Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up."

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