The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUBooks are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThere is no remedy for love but to love more.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe universe is wider than our views of it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
HENRY DAVID THOREAURead the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWrite while the heat is in you.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUSimplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
HENRY DAVID THOREAULive in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUA written word is the choicest of relics.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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 THOREAUWe are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUCould a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIt is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
HENRY DAVID THOREAU