3,409 Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter

Some would find fault with the morning, if they ever got up early enough.. The fault find faults even in Paradise.

Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.

I did not know that we had ever quarreled.

Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.

There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.

Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.

Law never made man a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well disposed are daily made agents of injustice.