Henry David Thoreau

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

What is once well done is done forever.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.