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 […]
Water is the only drink for a wise man.
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.
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.
