3,409 Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. . . . How beautifully they go to their graves! How gently lay themselves down and turn to mould. They teach us how to die. One wonders if the time will ever come when people, with our boasted faith in immortality, will lie down as gracefully and ripe-with such an Indian-summer serenity will shed our bodies.

And so the seasons went rolling on into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass.

Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love.

Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as far surpass anyman's faith in the loftiness of his destiny. Things are to be learned which it will be worth the while to learn.

There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.

The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.

Some creatures are made to see in the dark.