To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.
Henry David ThoreauAs a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.
Henry David ThoreauThe dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another.
Henry David ThoreauIt is worth the while to live respectably unto ourselves. We can possibly get along with a neighbor, even with a bedfellow, whom we respect but very little; but as soon as it comes to this, that we do not respect ourselves, then we do not get along at all, no matter how much money we are paid for halting.
Henry David ThoreauWho ever saw his old clothes, - his old coat, actually worn out, resolved into its primitive elements, so that it was not a deed of charity to bestow it on some poor boy, by him perchance to be bestowed on some poorer still, or shall we say richer, who could do with less? I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
Henry David Thoreau