More quotes by Henry David Thoreau

"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."
"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."
"What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook."
"Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live."
"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters."