Henry David Thoreau Citations pour inspirer vos prochaines vacances nature

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.

Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

We should impart our courage and not our despair.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones.

Be it life or death, we crave only reality.

Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.

Silence is the communing of a conscious soul with itself.

Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident - It is as common as life.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.