Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUFools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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All good things are wild and free.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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Things do not change; we change.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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