Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, an obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board. The hospitality was as cold as the ices. I thought that there was no need of ice to freeze them. They talked to me […]
In warm evenings I frequently sat in the boat playing the flute, and saw the perch, which I seemed to have charmed, hovering around me, and the moon travelling over the ribbed bottom, which was strewed with the wrecks of the forest. Formerly I had come to this pond adventurously, from time to time, in […]
I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.
A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.
Water is the only drink for a wise man.
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.
