Quotes from Henry David Thoreau
I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man...
- Henry David Thoreau
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.
- Henry David Thoreau
I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.
- Henry David Thoreau
That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
- Henry David Thoreau
Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.
- Henry David Thoreau
They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.
- Henry David Thoreau
To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.
- Henry David Thoreau
When a man truly commits, the universe will conspire to assure his success.
- Henry David Thoreau
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
- Henry David Thoreau