If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
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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When 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.
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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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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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If you want to be happy, be!
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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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