It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAll men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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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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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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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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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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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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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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