3,409 Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return.

There is one thought for the field, another for the house. I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be food for walkers, and will not warrant them to be palatable if tasted in the house.

Do what you know you ought to do. Why should we ever go abroad, even across the way, to ask a neighbor's advice? There is a nearerneighbor within us incessantly telling us how we should behave. But we wait for the neighbor without to tell us of some false, easier way.

All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all.

The Heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high.

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it's gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.