Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters? Henry David Thoreau More Quotes by Henry David Thoreau More Quotes From Henry David Thoreau It is never too late to give up your prejudices. Henry David Thoreau Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Henry David Thoreau The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible And indescribably as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, A segment of the rainbow which I have clutched. Henry David Thoreau To affect the quality of the day that is the art of life. Henry David Thoreau We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be. -- from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Henry David Thoreau A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - from Live Without Principle Henry David Thoreau Time is but the stream I go a-fishin in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains. Henry David Thoreau That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. Henry David Thoreau The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off. Henry David Thoreau Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish fill the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born. Henry David Thoreau However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society. Henry David Thoreau It is not enough to be busy -- the question is what are we busy about. Henry David Thoreau A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone. Henry David Thoreau What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate. Henry David Thoreau Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice. Henry David Thoreau Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. Henry David Thoreau What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm. Henry David Thoreau A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age. Henry David Thoreau All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy we reason from our hands to our head. Henry David Thoreau Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him. Henry David Thoreau
