More quotes by Henry David Thoreau, Walden

"When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality."
"Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star."
"All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be."
"Things do not change; we change."
"Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations."