Henry David Thoreau

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance.

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles… but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief -a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Nothing’s beautiful from every point of view.

You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don’t labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.