3,409 Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.

The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.

The only government that I recognize--and it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small its army--is that power thatestablishes justice in the land, never that which establishes injustice.

I love reform better than its modes.

How could youths better learn to live than by once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would educate their minds as much as mathematics

Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.

A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of the woods. "The pale white man!" I do not wonder that the African pitied him.

WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties.