Quotes from Henry David Thoreau
I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.
- Henry David Thoreau
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
- Henry David Thoreau
Whate'er we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
- Henry David Thoreau
What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new.
- Henry David Thoreau
I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.
- Henry David Thoreau
Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.
- Henry David Thoreau
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
- Henry David Thoreau
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.
- Henry David Thoreau
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbours.
- Henry David Thoreau
The eye is the jewel of the body.
- Henry David Thoreau
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
- Henry David Thoreau