Henry David Thoreau

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one… characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David Thoreau