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Henry David Thoreau
It takes two...
It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak, and another to hear.
Source: A Week on...
I never found...
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Source: Walden,...
We must walk...
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our...
Not that the...
Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.
If a man...
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to...
The poet is...
The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as...
A broad margin...
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.
Source:...
We seem but...
We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the...
The man who...
The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at...
What men call...
What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close...
He who is...
He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most...
As if you...
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Source: Walden, Economy,...
The volatile truth...
The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual...
But lo! men...
But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.
Source: Walden, Economy,...
Absolutely speaking, Do...
Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the...
Read the best...
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.
Source: A...
What lies behind...
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within...
The highest law...
The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.
Source:
-- Henry David...
That man is...
That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.
Source:
-- Henry David...
A name pronounced...
A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can...