"The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail" Quotes
A man reflects on his life and choices during a night spent in jail.
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Quotes
The only true laws are the laws of nature. The rest are simply a reflection of the power structure of the moment.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
The universe is wider than our views of it.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
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.
Things do not change; we change.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
