152 quotes by Henry David Thoreau

“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?” — Henry David Thoreau

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“We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!” — Henry David Thoreau

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“I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Dreams are the touchstones of our character.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” — Henry David Thoreau

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