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It is never too late to give up your prejudices

Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and softly rest on your shoulder.

Henry David Thoreau

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Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.

Henry David Thoreau

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Under a goverment which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison

Henry David Thoreau

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Henry David Thoreau

Stichwörter: wisdom inspiration practicality

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...for my greatest skill has been to want but little.

Henry David Thoreau

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We live a short period of time in this world, but we live it according to the laws of eternal life.

Henry David Thoreau

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I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or six years since I trod it, it is still quite distinct. It is true, I fear that others may have fallen into it, and so helped to keep it open. The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

Henry David Thoreau

Stichwörter: walden

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I am a parcel of vain strivings tied by a chance bond together.

Henry David Thoreau

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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

Henry David Thoreau

Stichwörter: afford let-alone natural rich wealth