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.
All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story. Let nothing come between you and the light. Respect men and brothers only. When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,


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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.
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The only wealth is life.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowled...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine,...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valu...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been rid...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor i...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and a...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it pea...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Seve...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we h...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
It's not enough to be busy. The question is: What are we busy about?
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
People die of fright and live of confidence.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their l...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
It is only when we forget out learning that we begin to know.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
If you give money, spend yourself with it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
I was once reproved by a minister who was driving a poor beast to some meeting-house horse-sheds amo...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fool...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate pov...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any preceden...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest t...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the t...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Life in us is like the water in a river.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Of what significance are the things you can forget.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women ov...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU