More quotes by Henry David Thoreau

"Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams."
"What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook."
"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."
"It's not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always."
"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters."