I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
HENRY DAVID THOREAULive in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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I love to be alone.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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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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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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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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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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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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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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