Quotes from Henry David Thoreau
It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.
- Henry David Thoreau
Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.
- Henry David Thoreau
By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau
Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.
- Henry David Thoreau
When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?
- Henry David Thoreau
I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung.
- Henry David Thoreau
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau
Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.
- Henry David Thoreau
We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.
- Henry David Thoreau
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
- Henry David Thoreau
The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.
- Henry David Thoreau