The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
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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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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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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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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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The 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.
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Not 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.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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