Henry David Thoreau

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

"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."

"That government is best which governs least."

"The bluebird carries the sky on his back."

"The heart is forever inexperienced."

"The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free."

"The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star."

"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation."

"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."

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

"There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature."

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."

"Things do not change; we change."

"This world is but a canvas to our imagination."

"Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed... Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders."

"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts."

"We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will."

"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success."

"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."

"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"