If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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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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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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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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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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