The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854), I, Economy
must wait till that other is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854), I, Economy
Related:
- I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.... - What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau in Walden, "Economy
- In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life
uch are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds.... - Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
-- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), Walden (1854)... - The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), "Walden", 1854... - The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only
great poets can read them.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854), III, Reading... - A man is rich in proportion to the number of things
he can afford to leave alone.
-- Henry David Thoreau... - To be awake is to be alive. -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), in "Walde
- I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately
o 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....
