Henry David Thoreau Quotes.
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
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.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.
