How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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Things do not change; we change.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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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 have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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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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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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