Quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
- 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
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
- Henry David Thoreau
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
- Henry David Thoreau
I make myself rich by making my wants few.
- Henry David Thoreau
Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.
- Henry David Thoreau
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
- Henry David Thoreau
Renew thyself completely each day.
- Henry David Thoreau