Henry David Thoreau Quotes And Sayings

I Have Seen How The Foundations Of The World Are Laid, And I Have Not The Least Doubt That It Will Stand A Good While.

In The Meanest Are All The Materials Of Manhood, Only They Are Not Rightly Disposed.

I Have Thought There Was Some Advantage Even In Death, By Which We Mingle With The Herd Of Common Men.

How Many Things There Are Concerning Which We Might Well Deliberate Whether We Had Better Know Them.

We Are Eager To Tunnel Under The Atlantic And Bring The Old World Some Weeks Nearer To The New, But Perchance The First News That Will Leak Through Into The Broad, Flapping American Ear Will Be That The Princess Adelaide Has The Whooping Cough.

Goodness Is The Only Investment That Never Fails.

Make The Most Of Your Regrets; Never Smother Your Sorrow, But Tend And Cherish It Till It Comes To Have A Separate And Integral Interest. To Regret Deeply Is To Live Afresh.

I Cannot Read A Single Word Of The Hindoos Without Being Elevated.

Do What You Love. Know Your Own Bone; Gnaw At It, Bury It, Unearth It, And Gnaw It Still.

I Did Not Wish To Take A Cabin Passage, But Rather To Go Before The Mast And On The Deck Of The World, For There I Could Best See The Moonlight Amid The Mountains. I Do Not Wish To Go Below Now.

It Is Better To Have Your Head In The Clouds, And Know Where You Are... Than To Breathe The Clearer Atmosphere Below Them, And Think That You Are In Paradise.

Nothing Goes By Luck In Composition. It Allows Of No Tricks. The Best You Can Write Will Be The Best You Are.

Every Creature Is Better Alive Than Dead, Men And Moose And Pine Trees, And He Who Understands It Aright Will Rather Preserve Its Life Than Destroy It.

This World Is But A Canvas To Our Imagination.

Nature Will Bear The Closest Inspection. She Invites Us To Lay Our Eye Level With Her Smallest Leaf, And Take An Insect View Of Its Plain.

To Affect The Quality Of The Day, That Is The Highest Of Arts.

If A Man Walks In The Woods For Love Of Them Half Of Each Day, He Is In Danger Of Being Regarded As A Loafer. But If He Spends His Days As A Speculator, Shearing Off Those Woods And Making The Earth Bald Before Her Time, He Is Deemed An Industrious And Enterprising Citizen.

Success Usually Comes To Those Who Are Too Busy To Be Looking For It.

Books Are To Be Distinguished By The Grandeur Of Their Topics Even More Than By The Manner In Which They Are Treated.

Do Not Be Too Moral. You May Cheat Yourself Out Of Much Life So.

The Bluebird Carries The Sky On His Back.

To A Philosopher All News, As It Is Called, Is Gossip, And They Who Edit And Read It Are Old Women Over Their Tea.

To A Philosopher All News, As It Is Called, Is Gossip, And They Who Edit And Read It Are Old Women Over Their Tea.

It's Not What You Look At That Matters, It's What You See.

Live Your Life, Do Your Work, Then Take Your Hat.

The Perception Of Beauty Is A Moral Test.

Be Not Simply Good - Be Good For Something.

There Is No Remedy For Love But To Love More.

Why Should We Be In Such Desperate Haste To Succeed, And In Such Desperate Enterprises? If A Man Does Not Keep Pace With His Companions, Perhaps It Is Because He Hears A Different Drummer.

If We Will Be Quiet And Ready Enough, We Shall Find Compensation In Every Disappointment.

If You Have Built Castles In The Air, Your Work Need Not Be Lost; That Is Where They Should Be. Now Put The Foundations Under Them.

None Are So Old As Those Who Have Outlived Enthusiasm.

If 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.

The Mass Of Men Lead Lives Of Quiet Desperation. What Is Called Resignation Is Confirmed Desperation.

Wealth Is The Ability To Fully Experience Life.

I Would Rather Sit On A Pumpkin And Have It All To Myself, Than Be Crowded On A Velvet Cushion.

Time Is But The Stream I Go A-fishing In.

There Is No More Fatal Blunderer Than He Who Consumes The Greater Part Of His Life Getting His Living.

What Is Once Well Done Is Done Forever.

I Know Of No More Encouraging Fact Than The Unquestionable Ability Of Man To Elevate His Life By Conscious Endeavor.

When I Hear Music, I Fear No Danger. I Am Invulnerable. I See No Foe. I Am Related To The Earliest Times, And To The Latest.

We Must Learn To Reawaken And Keep Ourselves Awake, Not By Mechanical Aid, But By An Infinite Expectation Of The Dawn.

We Must Walk Consciously Only Part Way Toward Our Goal, And Then Leap In The Dark To Our Success.

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.

Any Fool Can Make A Rule, And Any Fool Will Mind It.

Pursue Some Path, However Narrow And Crooked, In Which You Can Walk With Love And Reverence.

Rather Than Love, Than Money, Than Fame, Give Me Truth.

Aim Above Morality. Be Not Simply Good, Be Good For Something.

We Are Always Paid For Our Suspicion By Finding What We Suspect.

Men Are Born To Succeed, Not To Fail.