Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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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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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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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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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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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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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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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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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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