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• If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
  Let him step to the music he hears however measured and far away. Henry David Thoreau...
• 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....
• 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...
• Only that day dawns to which we are awake. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walde
• Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
  -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), Walden (1854)...
• Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
  Henry David Thoreau...
• Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn.
  The sun is but a morning star. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walde...
• 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....
• I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dream
  and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours....