3,409 Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.

There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.

I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.

There is ripe fruit over your head.

Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?

Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted.

A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East.

I would remind my countrymen, that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. No matter how valuable law may be to protect your property, even to keep soul and body together, if it do not keep you and humanity together.

There has always been the same amount of light in the world. The new and missing stars, the comets and eclipses, do not affect thegeneral illumination, for only our glasses appreciate them.