Henry David Thoreau

We like that a sentence should read as if its author had he held a plough instead of a pen could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.

As for style of writing if one has anything to say it drops from him simply and directly as a stone falls to the ground.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Beware all enterprises that require new clothes.

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear.

Between whom there is hearty truth there is love.

I have travelled a good deal in Concord.

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

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life.

City life - millions of people being lonesome together.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imaged he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rain-storms and did my duty faithfully.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.

Simplicity simplicity simplicity! I say let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or a thousand. ... Simplify simplify.