I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUHow many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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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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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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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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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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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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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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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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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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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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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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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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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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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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