Henry David Thoreau : (14)

" Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. " - Henry David Thoreau

" It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all. " - Henry David Thoreau

" There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be. " - Henry David Thoreau

" Live your life, do your work, then take your hat. " - Henry David Thoreau

" Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without. " - Henry David Thoreau

" I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated. " - Henry David Thoreau

" A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. " - Henry David Thoreau

" Only that day dawns to which we are awake. " - Henry David Thoreau

" I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life. " - Henry David Thoreau

" Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify. " - Henry David Thoreau