Henry David Thoreau

“When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?”

“That government is best which governs least.”

“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”

“This world is but canvas to our imaginations.”

“It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear.”

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

“Simplify, simplify.”

“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.”

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

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

“Only that day dawns to which we are awake.”

“In wildness is the preservation of the world.”

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”