SimplyNeo Quotes

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Make the most of your regrets. . . . To regret deeply is to live afresh. Journal

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.

The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.

If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

I was determined to know beans. Walden

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.