Henry David Thoreau
  • I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

  • In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

  • Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

  • 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.

  • 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.