Quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
- Henry David Thoreau
Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.
- Henry David Thoreau
Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life
- Henry David Thoreau
One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
- Henry David Thoreau
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
- Henry David Thoreau
The man for whom law exists -- the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man.
- Henry David Thoreau
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
- Henry David Thoreau
The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
- Henry David Thoreau
To reget deeply is to live afresh.
- Henry David Thoreau