Henry David Thoreau Short Quotes

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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
In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.

Henry David Thoreau
Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

Henry David Thoreau
He listens equally to the prayers of the believer and the unbeliever.

Henry David Thoreau
Heaven is not one of your fertile Ohio bottoms, you may depend on it.

Henry David Thoreau
We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.

Henry David Thoreau