Henry David Thoreau
148 quotations
To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.
How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.
Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.
Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.
Things do not change, we do.
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
If you give money, spend yourself with it.
The sun is but a morning star.
We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.
Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.
A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.
Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.
But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.
Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.
It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak, and another to hear.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.