I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
-
-
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Life in us is like the water in a river.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Not 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 THOREAU -
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
I make myself rich by making my wants few.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
The heart is forever inexperienced.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
We are constantly invited to be what we are.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Not 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 THOREAU -
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
HENRY DAVID THOREAU