Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAs if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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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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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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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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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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