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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUSay what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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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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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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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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Renew thyself completely each day.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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I love to be alone.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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