If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAn early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUBooks must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWe are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf you want to be happy, be!
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhen 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.
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 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 THOREAUSimplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUDisobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUMen are born to succeed, not to fail.
HENRY DAVID THOREAURead the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUHow many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU