Quotes from Henry David Thoreau
It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.
- Henry David Thoreau
For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.
- Henry David Thoreau
Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.
- Henry David Thoreau
I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.
- Henry David Thoreau
What can be expressed in words can be expressed in life.
- Henry David Thoreau
The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
- Henry David Thoreau
What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!
- Henry David Thoreau
The little things in life are as interesting as the big ones.
- Henry David Thoreau
We do not live by justice, but by grace.
- Henry David Thoreau