Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUPublic opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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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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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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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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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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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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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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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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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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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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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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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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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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