How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI love to be alone.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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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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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of 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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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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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 question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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