Henry David Thoreau Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Henry David Thoreau quotes, Henry David Thoreau sayings, and Henry David Thoreau proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Satan from one of his elevations, showed mankind the kingdom of California, and they entered into a compact with him at once. Henry David Thoreau
There is no remedy for love but to love more. Henry David Thoreau
Love must be as much a light as it is a flame. Henry David Thoreau
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. Henry David Thoreau
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual... O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment. Henry David Thoreau
As I go through the woods now, so many oak and other leaves have fallen the rustling noise somewhat disturbs my musing. Henry David Thoreau
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. Henry David Thoreau
It takes two to speak truth--one to speak, and another to hear. Henry David Thoreau
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. Henry David Thoreau
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
We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected. Henry David Thoreau
Unless you watch it, you do not know when the sun goes down. It is like a candle extinguished without smoke. Henry David Thoreau
Falsehoods that glare and dazzle are sloped toward us, reflecting full in our faces, even the light of the sun. Wait till sunset, or go round them, and the falsity will be apparent. Henry David Thoreau
By my intimacy with nature, I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude. Henry David Thoreau
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. Henry David Thoreau
Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day. Henry David Thoreau
These small waves raised by the evening wind are as remote from storm as the smooth reflecting surface. Though it is now dark, the wind still blows and roars in the wood, the waves still dash, and some creatures lull the rest with their notes. Henry David Thoreau
Great persons are not soon learned, not even their outlines, but they change like the mountains in the horizon as we ride along. Henry David Thoreau
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. Henry David Thoreau
How much of the year is spring and fall! how little can be called summer! The grass is no sooner grown than it begins to wither. Henry David Thoreau
There is light on the earth and leaves, as if they were burnished. It is the glistening autumnal side of summer. I feel a cool vein in the breeze, which braces my thought, and I pass with pleasure over sheltered and sunny portions of the sand where the summer's heat is undiminished, and I realize what a friend I am losing. Henry David Thoreau
Our life is frittered away by detail simplify, simplify. Henry David Thoreau
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself. Henry David Thoreau
It is desirable that a man live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that if an enemy take the town. He can walk out the gate empty handed and without anxiety. Henry David Thoreau
Things do not change, we change. Henry David Thoreau
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically. Henry David Thoreau
The reader is nowhere raised into and sustained in a bigger, purer or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagavad-Gita. The Gita's sanity and sublimity have impressed the minds of even soldiers and merchants. Henry David Thoreau
The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil. Henry David Thoreau
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
Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent. Henry David Thoreau