Quotes
Quotes - Thoreau
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
Goodness is the only investment which never fails.
For every ten people who are clipping at the branches of evil, you're lucky to find one who's hacking at the roots.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much of life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much of life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
If...the machine of government...is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
In times when the government imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also the prison.
Men have become the tools of their tools.
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.
A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of life getting his living.
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.
Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.
Spring is a natural resurrection, an experience in immortality.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.
