This page is devoted to statements by Henry David Thoreau. They may be duplicated under other categories.
It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals...with 500 men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being, alone.
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have even lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.
To reget deeply is to live afresh.
The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
It takes two to speak truth - One to speak, and another to hear.
I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
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