"I have a great deal of company..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.
More by Henry David Thoreau
“When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.”
“Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.”
“We should never stand upon ceremony with sincerity. We should never cheat and insult and banish one another by our meanness, if there were present the kernel of worth and friendliness. We should not meet thus in haste.”
More on Solitude
“A little while alone in your roomwill prove more valuable than anything elsethat could ever be given you.”
“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”
“On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at Court or at war, from which so many quarrels, passions, risky, often ill-conceived actions and so on are born, I have often said that man's unhappiness springs from one thing alone, his incapacity to stay quietly in one room.”
More on Introspection
“Let each of us examine his thoughts”
“I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory.”
“Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.”