3,409 Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son ofearth and of Heaven, and by his greater strength and endurance his fainting companions will recognize the God in him. It is the worshipers of beauty, after all, who have done the real pioneer work of the world.

Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.

I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks.

There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.

Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.

The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.