Henry David Thoreau American Author Quotations

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

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.

If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music in which he hears, however measured, or far away.

What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.