Henry David Thoreau Quotes on age

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles... view

By: Henry David Thoreau

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The savage in man is never quite eradicated... view

By: Henry David Thoreau

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

By: Henry David Thoreau

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The language of friendship is not words but meanings... view

By: Henry David Thoreau

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It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all... view

By: Henry David Thoreau

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now... view

By: Henry David Thoreau

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I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men... view

By: Henry David Thoreau

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Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men... view

By: Henry David Thoreau

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In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood... view

By: Henry David Thoreau

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If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law... view

By: Henry David Thoreau

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There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor... view

By: Henry David Thoreau

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There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages... view

By: Henry David Thoreau

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