Henry David Thoreau

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

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

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

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

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

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.