Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

-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.

-Men are born to succeed, not fail.

-Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

-Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

-Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

-That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

-The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

-When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.

-It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

-He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

-Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

-When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

-It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

-As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

-Be not simply good; be good for something.

-How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

-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.

-Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.