How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...

The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening.  It is a little star dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...

Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...

We were born to succeed, not to fail. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...

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. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...

Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...

There is no remedy for love but to love more. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...