The 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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI love to be alone.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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 say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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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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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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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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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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