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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf 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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUMen are born to succeed, not to fail.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI love to be alone.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUHow many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUSimplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWe are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIt is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUEnthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUOur truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUTo be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
HENRY DAVID THOREAULive in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUEvery morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe universe is wider than our views of it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU