Henry David Thoreau

This life is not for complaint but for satisfaction.

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

Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events circumstances etc. have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

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

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?

Read the best books first or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly the true place for a just man is also a prison.

A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.

It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.

Events circumstances etc. have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

What a man thinks of himself that is what determines or rather indicates his fate.

Politics is the gizzard of society full of gut and gravel.

Colour which is the poet's wealth is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.

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