3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau 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.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau As for doing good that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
