The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIt takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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Things do not change; we change.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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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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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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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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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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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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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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