Henry David Thoreau

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve."

"If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life."

"Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star."

"It would be worth the while to look closely into the eye which has been open and seeing at such hours, and in such solitudes, its dull, yellowish, greenish eye. Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green."

"Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes."