More From Henry David Thoreau
- "Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent."
- "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
- "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."
More In Experience
- "Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act."― A. E. Housman
- "Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred."― Walter Benjamin
- "Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again."― Andre Gide