Henry David Thoreau Quotes

• Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Intelligence

  Tags in Party

• Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Chance, Books, Reading

• Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Love, Money, Truth

• Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Particularly, Impression

• Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Life

• Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Property, Rather

• Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Awake

• Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Old

• Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Friends, Distance

• Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Trick, Write

• Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Begin, Lost

• No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Matter

• Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Wisdom

• Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Inspirational, Uncategorized

  Tags in Never, Way

• Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Trade

• Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Nature

• Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Genius, Nature

• Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Life, Nature

  Tags in Human

• Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Life, Positive

• Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Grave, Still

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