A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIt is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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I 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.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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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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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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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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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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