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It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. - Thoreau

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive. - Thoreau

One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul. - Thoreau

If you think you know everything; you know nothing. If you think you know nothing; you know something. - Jayce O'Neal

And so the seasons went rolling on into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass. - Thoreau

As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that. - Thoreau

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short. - Thoreau

Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy. - Thoreau

Spring - an experience in immortality. - Thoreau

I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself. - Thoreau