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."
"Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate."
"A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend."
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
"Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up."