Henry David Thoreau's Quotes

Henry David Thoreau's Quotes 309

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

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

As in geology so in social institutions we may discover the causes of all...

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

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

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.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and...

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

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

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the...

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long...

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

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

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level...

If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he...

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become...

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my...

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to...

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

Instead of noblemen let us have noble villages of men.

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