Related:

• What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau in Walden, "Economy
• Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
  -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), Walden (1854)...
• The great mass of men lead lives of quiet domestication. -- Solomon Sho
• To be awake is to be alive. -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), in "Walde
• 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....
• 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...
• The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.
  -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854), III, Reading...
• In wildness is the preservation of the world. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walking(1862)
• Only that day dawns to which we are awake. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walde