The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUBe resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUNothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUDo not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe heart is forever inexperienced.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf 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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAURead the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
HENRY DAVID THOREAURather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIt takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUA written word is the choicest of relics.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWrite while the heat is in you.
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 THOREAUAll men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU