3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
