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• 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.
  Henry David Thoreau...
• If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
  -- Henry David Thoreau...
• In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life
  uch are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds....
• Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest.
  Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...
• The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
  -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854), I, Economy...
• To be awake is to be alive. -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), in "Walde
• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately
  o front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived....
• 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....
• I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
  We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers....