Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUDisobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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 THOREAUThere is no remedy for love but to love more.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIt is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAs if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUSimplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUSimplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
HENRY DAVID THOREAUBe resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
HENRY DAVID THOREAULife in us is like the water in a river.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUHeaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI 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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUNot 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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU