More quotes by Henry David Thoreau

"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."
"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."
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined."
"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."
"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend."