Quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Let things alone; let them weigh what they will; let them soar or fall.
- Henry David Thoreau
You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.
- Henry David Thoreau
I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace.
- Henry David Thoreau
It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the other humans in his life.
- Henry David Thoreau
Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is time that we had uncommon schools, that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men and women.
- Henry David Thoreau
If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.
- Henry David Thoreau
The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.
- Henry David Thoreau
There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.
- Henry David Thoreau
If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
- Henry David Thoreau
What a man thinks of himself that is what determines or rather indicates his fate.
- Henry David Thoreau
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
- Henry David Thoreau