I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUSimplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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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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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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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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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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