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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUA written word is the choicest of relics.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
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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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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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All good things are wild and free.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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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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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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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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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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