More quotes by Henry David Thoreau

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
"It's not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always."
"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."
"It's not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always."
"He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair."