More quotes by Henry David Thoreau

"What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook."
"It's not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always."
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."
"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."