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 THOREAUEnthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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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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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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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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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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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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Write while the heat is in you.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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