Henry David Thoreau

One of the greats, also one of Benjamin Franklin's most trusted:

• Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
• The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
• Things do not change; we change.
• You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
• A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
• After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
• Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.