Explore Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

Live the life you've dreamed.

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.