Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years. Being is the great explainer. Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes. Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated. Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside. Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else. Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. Dreams are the touchstones of our character. Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it? Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.
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