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• 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...
• To be awake is to be alive. -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), in "Walde
• There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.
  -- Henry David Thoreau, Walde...
• What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau in Walden, "Economy
• 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....
• 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...
• Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
  -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), Walden (1854)...
• The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
  -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), "Walden", 1854...
• 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....