Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhen 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.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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All good things are wild and free.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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I love to be alone.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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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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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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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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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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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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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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