Henry David Thoreau's Quotes

Henry David Thoreau's Quotes 309

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is...

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love...

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism...

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle...

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish...

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three...

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and...

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

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes...

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only...

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but...

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least...

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the...

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake...

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