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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. - Thoreau

Be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be. - Thoreau

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. - Thoreau

Faith never makes a confession. - Thoreau

If I put my head deliberately into the fire, there is no appeal to fire or to the maker of fire, and I have only myself to blame. - Thoreau

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. - Thoreau

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. - Thoreau

The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God. - Thoreau

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