Henry David Thoreau Quotes And Sayings

It Is Too Late To Be Studying Hebrew; It Is More Important To Understand Even The Slang Of Today.

If You Can Speak What You Will Never Hear, If You Can Write What You Will Never Read, You Have Done Rare Things.

I Have A Great Deal Of Company In The House, Especially In The Morning When Nobody Calls.

A 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.

Front Yards Are Not Made To Walk In, But, At Most, Through, And You Could Go In The Back Way.

There Is Danger That We Lose Sight Of What Our Friend Is Absolutely, While Considering What She Is To Us Alone.

The Most I Can Do For My Friend Is Simply Be His Friend.

Old Deeds For Old People, And New Deeds For New.

We Are Not What We Are, Nor Do We Treat Or Esteem Each Other For Such, But For What We Are Capable Of Being.

Not Only Must We Be Good, But We Must Also Be Good For Something.

A Man Is Rich In Proportion To The Number Of Things He Can Afford To Let Alone.

How Vain It Is To Sit Down To Write When You Have Not Stood Up To Live.

It Takes Two To Speak The Truth: One To Speak, And Another To Hear.

We Shall See But A Little Way If We Require To Understand What We See.

It Is Not Desirable To Cultivate A Respect For The Law, So Much As For The Right.

That Government Is Best Which Governs Least.

All This Worldly Wisdom Was Once The Unamiable Heresy Of Some Wise Man.

The Language Of Friendship Is Not Words But Meanings.

If You Would Convince A Man That He Does Wrong, Do Right. Men Will Believe What They See.

Books Are The Treasured Wealth Of The World And The Fit Inheritance Of Generations And Nations.

That Man Is Rich Whose Pleasures Are The Cheapest.

The Cost Of A Thing Is The Amount Of What I Will Call Life Which Is Required To Be Exchanged For It, Immediately Or In The Long Run.

How Could Youths Better Learn To Live Than By At Once Trying The Experiment Of Living?

We Know But A Few Men, A Great Many Coats And Breeches.

It Is The Greatest Of All Advantages To Enjoy No Advantage At All.

There Is No Odor So Bad As That Which Arises From Goodness Tainted.

There Is No Rule More Invariable Than That We Are Paid For Our Suspicions By Finding What We Suspect.

Live The Life You've Dreamed.

If One Advances Confidently In The Direction Of His Dreams, And Endeavors To Live The Life Which He Has Imagined, He Will Meet With A Success Unexpected In Common Hours.

Money Is Not Required To Buy One Necessity Of The Soul.

'Tis Healthy To Be Sick Sometimes.

It Is Best To Avoid The Beginnings Of Evil.

There Are Certain Pursuits Which, If Not Wholly Poetic And True, Do At Least Suggest A Nobler And Finer Relation To Nature Than We Know. The Keeping Of Bees, For Instance.

All Men Are Children, And Of One Family. The Same Tale Sends Them All To Bed, And Wakes Them In The Morning.

The Law Will Never Make A Man Free; It Is Men Who Have Got To Make The Law Free.

A Man's Interest In A Single Bluebird Is Worth More Than A Complete But Dry List Of The Fauna And Flora Of A Town.

Nature Puts No Question And Answers None Which We Mortals Ask. She Has Long Ago Taken Her Resolution.

Things Do Not Change; We Change.

I Think That There Is Nothing, Not Even Crime, More Opposed To Poetry, To Philosophy, Ay, To Life Itself Than This Incessant Business.

Only That Day Dawns To Which We Are Awake.

What Old People Say You Cannot Do, You Try And Find That You Can. Old Deeds For Old People, And New Deeds For New.

The Greatest Compliment That Was Ever Paid Me Was When One Asked Me What I Thought, And Attended To My Answer.

Under A Government Which Imprisons Any Unjustly, The True Place For A Just Man Is Also A Prison.

The Man Who Is Dissatisfied With Himself, What Can He Do?

Being Is The Great Explainer.

To Have Done Anything Just For Money Is To Have Been Truly Idle.

In The Long Run, Men Hit Only What They Aim At. Therefore, They Had Better Aim At Something High.

Faith Keeps Many Doubts In Her Pay. If I Could Not Doubt, I Should Not Believe.

As If You Could Kill Time Without Injuring Eternity.

Simplify, Simplify.