He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
The fault–finder will find faults even in paradise. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation, and go to the grave with the song still in them. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
It is not a man’s duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically […]
The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)