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

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago...

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago...

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

Poverty - it is life near the bone, where it is sweetest

Poverty - it is life near the bone, where it is sweetest

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe....

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe....

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we...

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we...

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found...

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found...

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...

A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love...

A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love...

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations...

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations...

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

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

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the...

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the...

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them...

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them...

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Water is the only drink for a wise man.

Water is the only drink for a wise man.

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could...

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could...

In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places...

In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places...

And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither...

And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither...

It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby...

It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby...