Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau was an American writer and philosopher; born David Henry Thoreau
Found 207 thoughts of Henry David Thoreau

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

Henry David Thoreau

I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.

Henry David Thoreau

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Henry David Thoreau

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Henry David Thoreau

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

Henry David Thoreau

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Henry David Thoreau

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

Henry David Thoreau

A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it.

Henry David Thoreau

Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

Henry David Thoreau

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.

Henry David Thoreau

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.

Henry David Thoreau

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

Henry David Thoreau

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

Henry David Thoreau

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

Henry David Thoreau

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

Henry David Thoreau

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!

Henry David Thoreau

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

Henry David Thoreau

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Henry David Thoreau

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Henry David Thoreau

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Henry David Thoreau

The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right.

Henry David Thoreau

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

Henry David Thoreau

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

Henry David Thoreau

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

Henry David Thoreau
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