"The only way to speak the truth..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

“What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues.”

“To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.”

“The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

“The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.”

“Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love.”

“Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)”

“When you seek Love with all your Heart, you shall find its echoes in the universe.”