Henry Thoreau

For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

In the long run, you only hit what you aim at.

It is not what you look at, but what you see.

To be awake is to be alive.

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

I went out to the country so i could examine the simple things in life.

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

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

Any fool can make a rule.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.