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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAULife in us is like the water in a river.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Things do not change; we change.
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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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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.
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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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The 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.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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Write while the heat is in you.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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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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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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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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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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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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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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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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