We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.Henry David Thoreau
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.Henry David Thoreau
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.Henry David Thoreau
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.Henry David Thoreau
How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.Henry David Thoreau
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.Henry David Thoreau
I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.Henry David Thoreau
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.Henry David Thoreau
