Henry David Thoreau
148 quotations
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
The universe is wider than our views of it.
That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.
There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.
The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
In wildness is the preservation of the world.
It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.
The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
Men have become the tools of their trade.
All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
City life is millions of people being lonesome together.
I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.
The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
Let nothing come between you and the light.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.