More quotes by Henry David Thoreau

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."
"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."
"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way."
"Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up."
"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."