The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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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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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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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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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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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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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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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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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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I love to be alone.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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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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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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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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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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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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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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