More From Henry David Thoreau
- "I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business."
- "Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars."
- "Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in."
More In Best
- "I knew I had to be the best at something, otherwise I would be nothing. I knew I wanted the world to know about Brigitte Bardot."― Brigitte Bardot
- "Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry."― Virginia Woolf
- "The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."― Epictetus