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13535 quotesRather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Truth
Henry David Thoreau
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Books - Reading
Henry David Thoreau
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Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
Society
Henry David Thoreau
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That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Riches
Henry David Thoreau
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That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.
Virtue
Henry David Thoreau
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The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.
Mediocrity
Henry David Thoreau
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The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.
Mistakes
Henry David Thoreau
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The eye is the jewel of the body.
Eyes
Henry David Thoreau
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The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
Conflict
Henry David Thoreau
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
Emotions
Henry David Thoreau
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The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.
Property
Henry David Thoreau
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
Animals
Henry David Thoreau
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The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
Integrity
Henry David Thoreau
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The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Friends and Friendship
Henry David Thoreau
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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.
Freedom
Henry David Thoreau
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The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
Law and Lawyers
Henry David Thoreau
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The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
Achievement
Henry David Thoreau
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Desperation
Henry David Thoreau
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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Friends and Friendship
Henry David Thoreau
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The only wealth is life.
Money
Henry David Thoreau
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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.
Music
Henry David Thoreau
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The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.
Purity
Henry David Thoreau
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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
War
Henry David Thoreau
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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Faith
Henry David Thoreau
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The stars are the apexes of what triangles!
Stardom
Henry David Thoreau
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun