More quotes by Henry David Thoreau

"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust."
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way."
"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."
"Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them."