Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUNothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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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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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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All good things are wild and free.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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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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