"I never found the companion
that was so companionable as solitude."
-Henry David Thoreau

"It takes two to speak truth ...
one to speak, and another to hear."
-Henry David Thoreau

"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."
-Henry David Thoreau

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

"You must live in the present,
launch yourself on every wave,
find your eternity in each moment."
-Henry David Thoreau

"If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame."
-Henry David Thoreau

"The heart is forever inexperienced."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Be true to your work,
your word, and your friend."
-Henry David Thoreau

"It is usually the imagination
that is wounded first,
rather than the heart;
it being much more sensitive."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Be not simply good;
be good for something."
-Henry David Thoreau

"To affect the quality of the day,
that is the highest of arts.
Every man is tasked to make his life,
even in its details,
worthy of the contemplation
of his most elevated and critical hour."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Not that the story need be long,
but it will take a long while to make it short."
-Henry David Thoreau