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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUOnly that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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All good things are wild and free.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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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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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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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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