What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAs if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUSimplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI love to be alone.
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 THOREAUDo not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUHeaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUEvery morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThis world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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 THOREAUThe universe is wider than our views of it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU