Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. Henry David Thoreau View this quote
Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars. Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise. Henry David Thoreau
He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair. Henry David Thoreau
How can any man be weak who dares to be at all? Henry David Thoreau
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Henry David Thoreau
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. Henry David Thoreau
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. Henry David Thoreau
How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them. Henry David Thoreau
How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact! Henry David Thoreau
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
July 12th, 1817 - May 6th, 1862
