“Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.” — Henry David Thoreau
“How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.” — Henry David Thoreau
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth” — Henry David Thoreau
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it” — Henry David Thoreau
“Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the truest type of love.” — Henry David Thoreau
“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” — Henry David Thoreau
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.” — Henry David Thoreau
“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.” — Henry David Thoreau
“The bluebird carries the sky on his back.” — Henry David Thoreau
“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?” — Henry David Thoreau
“Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure” — Henry David Thoreau
“The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.” — Henry David Thoreau