Walden Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

But I am wiser than that. I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.

In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.

“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.” T. E. Lawrence (1888–1935), Seven Pillars of Wisdom

A primary motive in going to Walden, he tells us, was his fear that he would, “when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”8