If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUPursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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As 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.
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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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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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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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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.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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All good things are wild and free.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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