I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude.
More Quotes from Henry David Thoreau:
In the streets and in society I am almost invariablycheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean.No amount of gold or respectability would in the leastredeem it,-- dining with the Governor or a member of CongressBut alone in the distant woods or fields,in unpretending sprout-lands or pastures tracked by rabbits,even in a bleak and, to most, cheerless day, like this,when a villager would be thinking of his inn,I come to myself, I once more feel myself grandly related,and that cold and solitude are friends of mine.I suppose that this value, in my case, is equivalentto what others get by churchgoing and prayer.I come home to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are,grand and beautiful. I have told many that I walk every dayabout half the daylight, but I think they do not believe it.I wish to get the Concord, the Massachusetts, the America,out of my head and be sane a part of every day.Henry David Thoreau
I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are.
Henry David Thoreau
A sentence should read as if its author had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.
Henry David Thoreau
We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.
Henry David Thoreau
We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.
Henry David Thoreau
I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.
Henry David Thoreau
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