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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUEvery path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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Things do not change; we change.
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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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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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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 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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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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