Henry David Thoreau ( 10 of 165 )
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task read more
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
If you give money, spend yourself with it.
If you give money, spend yourself with it.
Men have become tools of their tools.
Men have become tools of their tools.
If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest read more
If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. read more
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
