Henry David Thoreau Short Quotes

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There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

Henry David Thoreau
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves.

Henry David Thoreau
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Henry David Thoreau
A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare.

Henry David Thoreau
Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.

Henry David Thoreau
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

Henry David Thoreau
Yet we must try the harder, the less the prospect of success.

Henry David Thoreau
I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Henry David Thoreau
Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring.

Henry David Thoreau
Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.

Henry David Thoreau
A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Henry David Thoreau
I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.

Henry David Thoreau
I respect the skunk as a human being in a very humble sphere.

Henry David Thoreau
Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.

Henry David Thoreau
Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?

Henry David Thoreau
Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Henry David Thoreau
A man may travel fast enough and earn his living on the road.

Henry David Thoreau
I seek acquaintance with Nature to know her moods and manners.

Henry David Thoreau
We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal.

Henry David Thoreau
Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau
A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.

Henry David Thoreau
The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

Henry David Thoreau
The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate.

Henry David Thoreau
I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.

Henry David Thoreau
No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.

Henry David Thoreau
The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate.

Henry David Thoreau
There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.

Henry David Thoreau
I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper.

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

Henry David Thoreau