Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIt is never too late to give up your prejudices.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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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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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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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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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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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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I love to be alone.
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Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
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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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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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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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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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