Henry David Thoreau Quotes
You must get your living by loving.
Henry David Thoreau
(Life Without Principles, 1863)
What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
Once I was part and parcel of nature - now I am observant of her.
How insufficient is all wisdom without love.
From the right point of view, every storm and every drop in it is a rainbow.
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Some of our richest days are those in which no sun shines outwardly, but so much the more a sun shines inwardly.
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
Be not simply good - be good for something.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
The wisest man preaches no doctrines.
This world is but a canvas for our imagination.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Let us consider the way in which we spend our lives.
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Birds do not sing in caves.
What is man but a mass of thawing clay?
The question is not what you look at but how you look and whether you see.
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
I have a room all to my self: it is Nature.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
There is no remedy for love, but to love more.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.