What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUDo not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUBooks must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThere is no remedy for love but to love more.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUA truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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 THOREAUAs if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAll men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIt is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUA single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUHow many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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 THOREAUTo be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUFools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU