Henry David Thoreau — "'Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of…"

"I perceive that, when an old man has done what he has to do, and has said what he has to say, he is as ready to go as an old clock to strike."

"I heartily accept the motto, — 'That government is best which governs least'; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which al…"

"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there…"

"It is not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

"As for conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that."