Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
— Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Live the life you’ve dreamed.
Live the life you’ve dreamed.
Henry David Thoreau
Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.
Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
Henry David Thoreau
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
Henry David Thoreau
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.