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.'

We must walk consciously only part way toward our gold, and then leap into the dark to our success. Henry David Thoreau
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest of times, and to the latest. Henry David Thoreau
At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn new things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. Henry David Thoreau
Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Henry David Thoreau
It is never too late to give up our prejudices. Henry David Thoreau
An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. 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 foundations under them. Henry David Thoreau
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, that gives birth to imagination. Henry David Thoreau
I know more of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. Henry David Thoreau
There is no remedy for love but to love more. Henry David Thoreau
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles. Henry David Thoreau
I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced. Henry David Thoreau
Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate oddfellow society. Henry David Thoreau
It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our mind's habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most illuminatedmoments are. Henry David Thoreau
It is never too late to give up our prejudices. Henry David Thoreau
We must walk consciously only part way toward our gold, and then leap into the dark to our success. Henry David Thoreau
The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind. Henry David Thoreau
To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in common sense, it contains only enduring and essential truth, the I and you, the here and there, the now and then, being omitted. Either time or rare wisdom writes it. Henry David Thoreau
The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity. Henry David Thoreau
Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted. Henry David Thoreau
I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth. Henry David Thoreau
I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back on to this ground. Henry David Thoreau
The sparrow seems always chipper, never infirm. We do not see their bodies lie about. Yet, there is a tragedy at the end of each one of their lives. They must perish miserably; not one of them is translated. Henry David Thoreau
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. Henry David Thoreau
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. Henry David Thoreau