A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
It is not enough to be busy so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth b...
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
If a man does not keep pace with hiscompanions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Lethim step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.It is not important that he sh...
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive.
The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet...
One day when I went out to my wood-pile, or rather my pile of stumps, I observed two large ants, the one red, the other much larger, nearly half an inch long, and black, fiercely contending with one a...
If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for. I trust that I shall never thus sell my birthrig...
I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.