I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe 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.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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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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If you want to be happy, be!
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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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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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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