3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau The 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.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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 success unexpected in common hours.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau 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.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
