It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUEnthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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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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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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As 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.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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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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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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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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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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