Quotes by Henri David Thoreau

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.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

"Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."