Quotations from
Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), an argument in favor of citizen disobedience against an unjust state.
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!