Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.