The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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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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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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