Henry David Thoreau
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.
Henry David ThoreauCould a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
Henry David ThoreauWhen it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.
Henry David ThoreauGive me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.
Henry David ThoreauThe laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
Henry David ThoreauA truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Henry David ThoreauA name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.
Henry David ThoreauIf a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
Henry David ThoreauWe can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain.
Henry David ThoreauHowever mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not bad... it looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults, even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may have perhaps some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor house.
Henry David ThoreauI do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake his neighbours up.
Henry David ThoreauWhat men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.
Henry David ThoreauI see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, cattle, barns, and farming tools, for these are more easily acquired than gotten rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labour in.
Henry David ThoreauIt is never too late to give up your prejudices.
Henry David ThoreauA man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David ThoreauHowever mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.
Henry David ThoreauWe are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
Henry David ThoreauHeroes are often the most ordinary of men.
Henry David ThoreauI'd rather sit alone on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Henry David ThoreauEvery generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Henry David ThoreauIn dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.
Henry David ThoreauSome circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
Henry David ThoreauThere is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David ThoreauIt is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Henry David ThoreauThe finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
Henry David Thoreau
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