Quotes

“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” Henry David Thoreau

“Dreams are the touchstones of our character.” Henry David Thoreau

“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.” Henry David Thoreau

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.” Henry David Thoreau

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” Henry David Thoreau

“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.” Henry David Thoreau

“I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.” Henry David Thoreau

“It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?” Henry David Thoreau

“There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.” Henry David Thoreau

“A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.” Henry David Thoreau

“Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” Henry David Thoreau

“Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.” Henry David Thoreau

“'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.” Henry David Thoreau

“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.” Henry David Thoreau

“If misery loves company, misery has company enough.” Henry David Thoreau

“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” Henry David Thoreau

“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.” Henry David Thoreau

“Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.” Henry David Thoreau

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” Henry David Thoreau

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” Henry David Thoreau

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.” Henry David Thoreau

“How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.” Henry David Thoreau

“We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.” Henry David Thoreau

“All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.” Henry David Thoreau

“Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.” Henry David Thoreau

“Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.” Henry David Thoreau

“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.” Henry David Thoreau

“Men have become the tools of their tools.” Henry David Thoreau

“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.” Henry David Thoreau

“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.” Henry David Thoreau