I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUHow vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUEvery generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIt is never too late to give up your prejudices.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUPursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAll men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUDreams are the touchstones of our characters.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThings do not change; we change.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAs you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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 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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
HENRY DAVID THOREAURead the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUYou must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU