It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf 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.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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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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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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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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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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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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