Quotes from Henry David Thoreau
The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane.
- Henry David Thoreau
If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.
- Henry David Thoreau
It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.
- Henry David Thoreau
A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.
- Henry David Thoreau
The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.
- Henry David Thoreau
I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.
- Henry David Thoreau
There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.
- Henry David Thoreau
Men reverence one another, not yet God.
- Henry David Thoreau
Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.
- Henry David Thoreau
We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.
- Henry David Thoreau