Henry David Thoreau quotes - page 5

It is a great art to saunter. (Henry David Thoreau)

A government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

Henry David Thoreau

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Henry David Thoreau

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Henry David Thoreau

For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.

Henry David Thoreau

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors for to dwell long upon them is to add to the offense, and repentance and sorrow can only be displaced by somewhat better, and which is as free and original as if they had not been.

Henry David Thoreau

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

Henry David Thoreau

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.

Henry David Thoreau

Let us not underrate the value of a fact it will one day flower into a truth.

Henry David Thoreau

For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation.

Henry David Thoreau

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. (Henry David Thoreau)

In the long run, men only hit what they aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.

Henry David Thoreau

We are constantly invited to be who we are.

Henry David Thoreau

The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.

Henry David Thoreau

The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls - the worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.

Henry David Thoreau

Talk of mysteries! - Think of our life in nature, - daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, - rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! The common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we?

Henry David Thoreau

The Indian...stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the civilized man has the habits of the house. His house is a prison.

Henry David Thoreau

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.

Henry David Thoreau

I am not sure but I should betake myself in extremities to the liberal divinities of Greece, rather than to my country's God. Jehovah, though with us he has acquired new attributes, is more absolute and unapproachable, but hardly more divine, than Jove. He is not so much of a gentleman, not so gracious and catholic, he does not exert so intimate and genial an influence on nature, as many a god of the Greeks.

Henry David Thoreau

Whate'er we leave to God, God does And blesses us.

Henry David Thoreau

I hear beyond the range of sound,
I see beyond the range of sight,
New earths and skies and seas around,
And in my day the sun doth pale his light. (Henry David Thoreau)

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

Henry David Thoreau

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Henry David Thoreau

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Henry David Thoreau

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