The heart is forever inexperienced.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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If 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.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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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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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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