Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Men have become the tools of their tools.
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.
I never found the 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.
In wildness is the preservation of the world.
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhapse it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, how ever measured or far away.
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Things do not change, we change.
Last Updated on 27 January, 1997