Henry David Thoreau Quotes

For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rain-storms and did my duty faithfully.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imaged he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

City life - millions of people being lonesome together.

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life.

I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear.

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Beware all enterprises that require new clothes.

We like that a sentence should read as if its author had he held a plough instead of a pen could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.

As for style of writing if one has anything to say it drops from him simply and directly as a stone falls to the ground.

The youth gets together this material to build a bridge to the moon or perchance a palace or temple on earth and at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

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

Be not simply good - be good for something.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed... Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

There is one consolation in being sick and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Things do not change we change.

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

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.