Henry David Thoreau Short Quotes

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The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just.

Henry David Thoreau
There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers

Henry David Thoreau
Morning glory is the best name, it always refreshes me to see it.

Henry David Thoreau
As for doing good, that is one of the professions which are full.

Henry David Thoreau
It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

Henry David Thoreau
Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Henry David Thoreau
Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

Henry David Thoreau
Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

Henry David Thoreau
.. I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days....

Henry David Thoreau
Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Henry David Thoreau
Many men walk by day; few walk by night. It is a different season.

Henry David Thoreau
I feel as if my life had grown more outward when I can express it.

Henry David Thoreau
Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.

Henry David Thoreau
I would not have any one adopt my mode of living on any account...

Henry David Thoreau
I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary.

Henry David Thoreau
He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly.

Henry David Thoreau
There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

Henry David Thoreau
What exercise is to the body, employment is to the mind and morals.

Henry David Thoreau
We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

Henry David Thoreau
Every man should stand for a force which is perfectly irresistible.

Henry David Thoreau
All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form.

Henry David Thoreau
To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions.

Henry David Thoreau
I do not believe there are eight hundred human beings on the globe.

Henry David Thoreau
The pickerel... the swiftest, wariest, and most ravenous of fishes.

Henry David Thoreau
It is darker in the woods, even in common nights, than most suppose.

Henry David Thoreau
Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.

Henry David Thoreau
How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?

Henry David Thoreau
No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring.

Henry David Thoreau
My Friend is that one whom I can associate with my choicest thought.

Henry David Thoreau
Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.

Henry David Thoreau