More quotes by Henry David Thoreau

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
"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."
"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."
"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way."
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."