I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUEvery path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUDo not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWildness is the preservation of the World.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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 THOREAUPublic opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWe are constantly invited to be what we are.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUHow many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWe are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI love to be alone.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUFools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUA single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUNothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
HENRY DAVID THOREAU