Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience", an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
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Rather than love than money than fame give me truth.
Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
Truth is always in harmony with herself and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
It is better to have your head in the clouds and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them and think that you are in paradise.
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought and attended to my answer.
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service, we lay them aside.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
