Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them.. view
By: Henry David Thoreau
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity.. view
By: Henry David Thoreau
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?.. view
By: Henry David Thoreau
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance.. view
By: Henry David Thoreau
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
Only that day dawns to which we are awake... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
It is too late to be studying Hebrew.. view
By: Henry David Thoreau
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
Justice is sweet and musical.. view
By: Henry David Thoreau
Live the life you've dreamed... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
Make the most of your regrets.. view
By: Henry David Thoreau
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!.. view
By: Henry David Thoreau
Men are born to succeed, not to fail... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
Men have become the tools of their tools... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
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... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify... view
By: Henry David Thoreau
The law will never make a man free.. view
By: Henry David Thoreau
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