Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

N.B. Fear itself. See also H. D. Thoreau.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

The question is not what you look at but what you see.

What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather, indicates, his fate.

Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, during the middle of the nineteenth century, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

The most i can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.