The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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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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All good things are wild and free.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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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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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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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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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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