I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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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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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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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.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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