More quotes by Henry David Thoreau

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
"Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day."
"Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live."
"What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook."
"On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world."