Happy 196th Birthday, Mr. Thoreau!

• “It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.”
• “Simplify, simplify.”
• “The world is wider than our views of it.”
• “How vain it is to sit down and write when you have not stood up to live.”
• “Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.”

Henry David Thoreau

• “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.”
• “Things do not change; we change.”
• “One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.”
• “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
• “It’s not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always.”