This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

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.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

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

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.