3,409 Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

The language of friendship is not words , but rather meanings . It is an intelligence above language.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are. Than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand.

The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise.

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

It takes two to speak the truth -- one to speak, and another to hear.

Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.

The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whether it is a slight insult to the gods to climb and pry into their secrets and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there.

You must not only aim right, but draw your bow with all your might.Â