I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWe are constantly invited to be what we are.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUTake 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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAll men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf 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 THOREAUI have a room all to myself; it is nature.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUEvery generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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 THOREAUWe are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUOur truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUTo be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUA truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUNothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUOnly that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU