Henry David Thoreau Quotes | Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
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In wilderness is the preservation of the world.
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Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
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Be not simply good - be good for something.
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What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. Friendship
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
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The language of friendship is not words but meanings. Friendship
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The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
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Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
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Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
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There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
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The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
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Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
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The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
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Things do not change; we change.
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