More quotes by Henry David Thoreau

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