How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUBe resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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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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Write while the heat is in you.
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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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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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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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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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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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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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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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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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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