All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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