Author of quotes: Henry David Thoreau. Page 3

A man's wealth is measured by the number of things it is easy to give up.

Paradise can be defined as the place which men avoid.

Not enough to be busy: so are the ants. The question is, what are you doing.

If you have built castles in the air, it does not mean that you have worked in vain: air locks place in the air. It remains only to bring them under the Foundation.

That extra money can only buy extra. And that the soul, nothing you can't buy.

Human capabilities are not measured so far. To judge them by previous experience we can't - people still so few dared.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to look for it.

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
The world is a canvas to the imagination.

From the city, full of despair, you find yourself in total despair of the village and a consolation to contemplate is only the bravery of Minks and musk-rats.

You give yourself diseases, trying something postponed in case of illness, something to hide in an old chest of drawers or in a stocking, stuffed into a gap, or for better safety, in the brick Bank - anywhere, in any way.

Public opinion is not a tyrant, as our own.

Condemned for what they eat sixty acres, when man is obliged during his life to eat only a fistful of dirt.

I hope no one is trying on a dress for myself, not gonna rip it seams, it may be useful to those who have at the time.

For our suspicions, we are paying for those that find what I suspected.