3,409 Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, Live the life you've always imagined.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, owever measured or far away.

In company, that person who alone can understand you, you cannot get out of your mind.

You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake; you must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand heap.

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate oddfellow society.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.