All Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
Henry David Thoreau
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Henry David Thoreau
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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Henry David Thoreau in
Art
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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau
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If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
Henry David Thoreau
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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
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I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
Henry David Thoreau
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Henry David Thoreau in
Life
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
Henry David Thoreau
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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Henry David Thoreau
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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David Thoreau in
Sports
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Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
Henry David Thoreau
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Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.
Henry David Thoreau
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Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.
Henry David Thoreau
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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
Henry David Thoreau
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