"If a man is alive, there is..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“It is an unfortunate discovery certainly, that of a law which binds us where we did not know before that we were bound.”

“There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning.”

“No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow.”

“The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.”

“Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.”

“Remember, the grass is always greener where you don't happen to be the neighbor.”

“I was never young. Whoever I was then is dead. That's more of your quills. I don't want a hide full, thanks. I have always figured that you die each day and and each day is a is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; but never go back and lift the lids, because you have died a couple thousand times in your life, and that's a lot of corpses, each dead a different way, each with a worse expression. Each of those days is a different you, somebody you don't know or understand or want to understand.”

“Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself.”

“O captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done. The ship has weather'd every wrack The prize we sought is won The port is near, the bells I hear The people all exulting While follow eyes, the steady keel The vessel grim and daring But Heart! Heart! Heart! O the bleeding drops of red Where on the deck my captain lies Fallen cold and dead.”