3,409 Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Objects of charity are not guests.

There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are the heathen.

Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficientaccuracy. Most revolutions in society have not power to interest, still less alarm us; but tell me that our rivers are drying up, or the genus pine dying out in the country, and I might attend.

Let go of the past and live the future . . . Live the life you imagined.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it.

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.