I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAn early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Things do not change; we change.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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I 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.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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