3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Make the most of your regrets never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau 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.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.