Henry David Thoreau Quotes - Page 2
+1Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1The meeting of two eternities, the past and future….is precisely the present moment.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Morning glory is the best name, it always refreshes me to see it.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul’s estate.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
- 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 foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Fire is the most tolerable third party.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1The heart is forever inexperienced.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Time is but the stream I go a fishing in. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident.It is as common as life.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in reverie.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1City life millions of people being lonesome together.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1If 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.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Every man is the builder of a Temple called his body, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.
- Henry David Thoreau
