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 THOREAUWhat is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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All good things are wild and free.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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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 make myself rich by making my wants few.
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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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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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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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