“Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.”
Henry David Thoreau

“The world is but a canvas to our imagination.”
Henry David Thoreau

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.”
Henry David Thoreau

“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Being is the great explainer.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”
Henry David Thoreau

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
Henry David Thoreau

“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”
Henry David Thoreau

“I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.”
Henry David Thoreau

“I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
Henry David Thoreau

“I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
Henry David Thoreau

“I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Live the life you’ve dreamed.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.”
Henry David Thoreau

“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Simplify, simplify.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
Henry David Thoreau

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
Henry David Thoreau