More quotes by Henry David Thoreau

"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."
"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."
"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."
"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."
"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."