Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUDreams are the touchstones of our characters.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAs you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUHow vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThat man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI have a room all to myself; it is nature.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
HENRY DAVID THOREAULife in us is like the water in a river.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWrite while the heat is in you.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUPursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAn early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThis world is but canvas to our imaginations.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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 THOREAU