Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau, born as David Henry Thoreau, was born on July 12, 1817 in Concord Massachusetts. He was an American poet, author, abolitionist, tax resister, naturalist, development critic, historian, surveyor, philosopher and one of the leading transcendentalists. His father was John Thoreau, who was a pencil maker and Cynthia Dunbar. Though he was not good-looking but his ugliness was considered to be of an honest and agreeable fashion. He studied at Harvard University courses like, Read More...
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.- Henry David Thoreau
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
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.
Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
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.
What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
What is once well done is done forever.
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
