Henry David Thoreau Quotes
+22Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
+17Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
- Henry David Thoreau
+14There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau
+3The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
- Henry David Thoreau
+2Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1We were born to succeed, not to fail.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1We are double edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1It takes two to speak the truth one to speak, and another to hear.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1The man who goes out alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1As if you could kill time without injuring eternity!
- Henry David Thoreau
+1The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Law never made men a whit more just.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man “fronts” a fact.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1A gun gives you the body, not the bird.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Nature 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.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1The sun is but a morning star.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
- Henry David Thoreau
