Henry David Thoreau

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

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.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.

To be awake is to be alive.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.