I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUDreams are the touchstones of our characters.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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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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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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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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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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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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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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I love to be alone.
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All good things are wild and free.
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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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