Henry David Thoreau Quotes
The universe is wider than our views of it.
Henry David Thoreau
(Walden - Chapter XVIII: Conclusion, 1854)
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
Things do not change; we change.
If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise.
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.
Love your life, poor as it is.
The language of Friendship is not words but meanings.
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.
Grow wild according to thy nature ... Enjoy the land but own it not ..
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Not till we are completely lost or turned around... do we begin to find ourselves.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!
In wildness is the preservation of the world.
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
Our life without love is coke and ashes.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us.