Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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Things do not change; we change.
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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All good things are wild and free.
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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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.
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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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