I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUA truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
HENRY DAVID THOREAULive in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWe are constantly invited to be what we are.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUCould a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUNot 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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIt is never too late to give up your prejudices.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIt takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUHow vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUEvery path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUFools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
HENRY DAVID THOREAULife in us is like the water in a river.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU