What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIt takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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All good things are wild and free.
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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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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.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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