I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUFriends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThat man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUNothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUEnthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI make myself rich by making my wants few.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe heart is forever inexperienced.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUPursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf 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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUBooks must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUOur life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUOur truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU