Quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
- Henry David Thoreau
Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.
- Henry David Thoreau
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
- Henry David Thoreau
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau
We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.
- Henry David Thoreau
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors; for to dwell upon them is to add to the offense.
- Henry David Thoreau
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.
- Henry David Thoreau
Faith never makes a confession.
- Henry David Thoreau
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau