Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.