I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of...

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of...

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when...

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when...

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they...

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they...

I belive that there is a subtile magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield...

I belive that there is a subtile magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield...

This American government what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to...

This American government what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to...

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can...

Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can...

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by...

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by...

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Live the life you've dreamed.

Live the life you've dreamed.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that...

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that...

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new...

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new...

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.