152 quotes by Henry David Thoreau

“That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Silence alone is worthy to be heard.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“I cannot make my days longer. So I strive to make them better.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Live the life you've dreamed.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“I make myself rich by making my wants few.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” — Henry David Thoreau

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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.” — Henry David Thoreau

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

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“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.” — Henry David Thoreau

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