Quotes from Henry David Thoreau
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
- Henry David Thoreau
If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.
- Henry David Thoreau
I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society.
- Henry David Thoreau
Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.
- Henry David Thoreau
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
- Henry David Thoreau
Surely joy is the condition of life.
- Henry David Thoreau
Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
- Henry David Thoreau
So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.
- Henry David Thoreau
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
- Henry David Thoreau
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
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.
- Henry David Thoreau
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
- Henry David Thoreau