Quotes from Henry David Thoreau
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity.
- Henry David Thoreau
The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past
- Henry David Thoreau
At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.
- Henry David Thoreau
I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the surface ofthings. We think that that is which appears to be.
- Henry David Thoreau
I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.
- Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came back with a new understanding of life.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is necessary not to be Christian to appreciate the beauty and significance of the life of Christ.
- Henry David Thoreau
The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.
- Henry David Thoreau
As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.
- Henry David Thoreau
Having reached the term of his natural life"; Mwould it not be truer to say, Having reached the term of his unnatural life?
- Henry David Thoreau