Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
By : Henry David Thoreau
Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them
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.
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.
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.
By : Henry David Thoreau
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
By : Henry David Thoreau
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance
By : Henry David Thoreau
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
By : Henry David Thoreau
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
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.
By : Henry David Thoreau
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
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.
By : Henry David Thoreau
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
By : Henry David Thoreau
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
By : Henry David Thoreau
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
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.
By : Henry David Thoreau