Henry David Thoreau

I should not talk so much about myself were there anybody else whom I knew as well.

 Henry David Thoreau, Walden, in  Vice and Virtue

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power of the greatest obstacle.

 Henry David Thoreau, in  Success and Failure

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

 Henry David Thoreau, in  Vice and Virtue

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

 Henry David Thoreau, in  Happiness and Misery

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

 Henry David Thoreau, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

Men have become the tools of their tools.

 Henry David Thoreau, in  Work and Recreation

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready.

 Henry David Thoreau, in  Work and Recreation

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

 Henry David Thoreau, in  Law and Politics