Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUMen are born to succeed, not to fail.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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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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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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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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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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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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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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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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