Maxioms by Henry David Thoreau
This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction
This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; read more
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, read more
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
