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 THOREAUNight is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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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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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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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
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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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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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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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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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If you want to be happy, be!
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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I love to be alone.
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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