More quotes by Henry David Thoreau

"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."
"It's not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always."
"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."
"Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams."
"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."