Henry David Thoreau

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

It's never too late to give up our prejudices.

There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and for mere gluttony.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.

With all your science can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that Light comes into the soul

There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward.

Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.

In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.

There are a thousand at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Dreams are the touchtones of our characters.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.

Things do not change, we do.

One must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

This American government what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity It has not the vitality and force of a single living man for a single man can bend it to his will.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.

The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.

They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.