Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThis world is but canvas to our imaginations.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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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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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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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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