Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI love to be alone.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Things do not change; we change.
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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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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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