Henry David Thoreau

It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

Things do not change; we change.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

Let nothing come between you and the light.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.