3,409 Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Find your eternity in each moment.

What’s the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on.

Our life is frittered away by detail simplify, simplify, simplify!

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

Every man is the builder of a Temple called his body, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead.

Be yourself--not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, that gives birth to imagination.