3,409 Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

There is no remedy for love but to love more."- Henry David Thoreau

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.

The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day.

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment! Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world.