Quotes of Thoreau, Henry David
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Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him. |
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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. |
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The language of friendship is not words but meanings. |
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. |
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I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. |
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. |
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If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal - that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. |
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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. |
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Live the life you've dreamed. |
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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. |
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