Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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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 say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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I love to be alone.
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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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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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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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