3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Those whom we can love, we can hate to others we are indifferent.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau 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.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
