Quotes from Henry David Thoreau
For the most part, the best man's spirit makes a fearful sprite to haunt his grave.
- Henry David Thoreau
Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.
- Henry David Thoreau
But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.
- Henry David Thoreau
The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.
- Henry David Thoreau
To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of his existence.
- Henry David Thoreau
Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will be good for them in the end.
- Henry David Thoreau
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your example which leaves them far behind. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them.
- Henry David Thoreau
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
- Henry David Thoreau
Morning glory is the best name, it always refreshes me to see it.
- Henry David Thoreau
As for me, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are now only the subtlest imaginable essences, which would not stain the morning sky.
- Henry David Thoreau
If Nature is our mother, then God is our father.
- Henry David Thoreau