Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUPublic opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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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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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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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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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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Not 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.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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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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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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I love to be alone.
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All good things are wild and free.
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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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