Simplify, simplify. Instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary eat but one; instead of a hundred dishes, five; and reduce other things in proportion. Henry David Thoreau
Our thoughts are the epochs in our lives, all else is but as a journal of the winds that blew while we were here. Henry David Thoreau
They required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still. Henry David Thoreau
Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel the cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business. Henry David Thoreau
To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it. Henry David Thoreau