Quotes
Quotes - Thoreau
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snow-storms and rain-storms and did my duty faithfully.
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
The man who goes out alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.
A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.
That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess.
I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.
I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.
