Quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.
- Henry David Thoreau
We must have infinite faith in each other.
- Henry David Thoreau
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
- Henry David Thoreau
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.
- Henry David Thoreau
Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.
- Henry David Thoreau
Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure
- Henry David Thoreau
Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.
- Henry David Thoreau
He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is one thought for the field, another for the house. I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be food for walkers, and will not warrant them to be palatable if tasted in the house.
- Henry David Thoreau
We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.
- Henry David Thoreau