Henry David Thoreau's Quotes

Henry David Thoreau's Quotes 309

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the...

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

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

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords...

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to...

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and...

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the...

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only...

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Things do not change: we change.

I have known such joys the likes of which might have inspired a Homer or a...

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Our moments of Inspirational are not lost though we have no particular poem...

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or,...

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many...

Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in...

It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

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