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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor""Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it ""Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks ""We need the tonic of wildness ""Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them ""Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after ""Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake ""I make myself rich by making my wants few ""It's the culmination of a lifetime’s worth of reflection that we can derive value from ""Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something ""What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on ""Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day ""It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar ""Be true to your work, your word, and your friend ""Could a greater miracle take place than to look through each other's eyes for an instant ""My greatest skill in life has been to want but little ""If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be ""I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time ""Never look back unless you are planning to go that way""If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours "