3,409 Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.

As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers

The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what we do; and yet how much is not done by us!

It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.

The world laughs in flowers.

If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even,- for that is the seat of sympathy,-he forthwith sets about reforming the world.