I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUEvery generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
-
-
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 THOREAU -
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
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 THOREAU -
It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
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 THOREAU -
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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Life in us is like the water in a river.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Renew thyself completely each day.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU