Quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.
- Henry David Thoreau
We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
- Henry David Thoreau
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau
Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every sunset I witness inspires me with the desire to go to West as distant and as fair as that which the sun goes down. Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.
- Henry David Thoreau
We never conceive the greatness of our fates.
- Henry David Thoreau
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
- Henry David Thoreau
In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.
- Henry David Thoreau
God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.
- Henry David Thoreau
Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced.
- Henry David Thoreau