Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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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 have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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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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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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