Quotes from Henry David Thoreau, Walden

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.

Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it but as I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.

Talk of heaven! ye disgrace earth.

God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.

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