3,409 Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Who hears the fishes when they cry?

With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?

It is tranquil people who accomplish much.

The true and not despairing Friend will address his Friend in some such terms as these. "I never asked thy leave to let me love thee,--I have a right. I love thee not as something private and personal, which is your own, but as something universal and worthy of love, which I have found. O, how I think of you! You are purely good, --you are infinitely good. I can trust you forever. I did not think that humanity was so rich. Give me an opportunity to live.

The mass of men are very easily imposed on. They have their runways in which they always travel, and are sure to fall into any pit or box-trap set therein.

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.

What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.

We are older by faith than by experience.