Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Topics: Conformity Quotes, Conventionality Quotes, Fashion Quotes

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience...

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience...

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay...

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay...

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest...

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest...

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels,...

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels,...

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and...

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and...

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to...

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to...

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all...

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all...

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with...

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with...

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by...

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by...

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to...

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to...

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you...

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you...

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and...

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and...

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by...

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by...

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who...

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who...