"How few things can a man measure..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”

“We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention.”

“That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.”

“That so few understand me is why I am treasured.”

“When we consider reality itself we quickly become aware of its infinite complexity, and we realize that our habitual perception of it is often inadequate. If this were not so, the concept of deception would be meaningless.”

“If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places, you will have the whole story.”

“They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.”

“Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.”

“He said true things, but called them by wrong names.”