Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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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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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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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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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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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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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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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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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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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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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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