There have been heroes for whom this world seemed expressly prepared, as if creation had at last succeeded; whose daily life was the stuff of which our dreams are made, and whose presence enhanced the beauty and ampleness of Nature herself.
Henry David ThoreauWe do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.
Henry David ThoreauNo face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
Henry David ThoreauIf one listens to the faintest but constant suggestions of his genius, which are certainly true, he sees not to what extremes, or even insanity, it may lead him; and yet that way, as he grows more resolute and faithful, his road lies.
Henry David Thoreau