More quotes by Henry David Thoreau

"Men are born to succeed, not to fail."
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
"What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook."
"I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder."
"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."