Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path we walk and walk again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

Silence alone is worthy to be heard.

I make myself rich by making my wants few.

I cannot make my days longer. So I strive to make them better.

Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Its not what you look at that matters, its what you see.

Simplify, simplify.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

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.

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

The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.