It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUBooks must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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If you want to be happy, be!
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I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
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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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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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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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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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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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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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