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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUTake 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.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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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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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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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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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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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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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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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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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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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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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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