The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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I love to be alone.
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It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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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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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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All good things are wild and free.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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