Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

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.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.