Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
You may rely on it that you have the best of me in my books, and that I am not worth seeing personally.
Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine […]
Our life is but the soul made known by its fruits, the body. The whole duty of man may be expressed in one line – make to yourself a perfect body.
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
