Henry David Thoreau

The stars are the apexes of what triangles!

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then

The sun is but a morning star.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.

Although the road is never ending, take a step and keep walking, do not look fearfully into the distance…on the path let the heart be your guide for the body is hesitant and full of fear.

The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.

The more you know the less you understand.

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

Better is the enemy of good.

A man’s style is his mind’s voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.

Events tend to recur in cycles.

I trust no one, not even myself.

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied spirits that survey the works of God and the actions of men; but it bestows no assistance upon earthly beings, and however free from taints of impurity, yet wants the sacred splendor of beneficence.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

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