The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUOur life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUCould a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUNot till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUYou must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAULife in us is like the water in a river.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUPublic opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAny fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUNothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUFools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUDo not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUA written word is the choicest of relics.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU