"Friends...they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams" — Henry David Thoreau

The only security of all is in a free press

Source: Letter to Lafayette (Nov. 4, 1823)

Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend

Source: The New England Tragedies, John Endicott (1868)

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud

Source: The Spectator, no. 225 (1711)

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does

Source: Emma (1815)

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake

Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

Henry David Thoreau Quote