Henry David Thoreau

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

Those whom we can love, we can hate to others we are indifferent.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

Live the life you've dreamed.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?