3,409 Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

There is always room and occasion enough for a true book on any subject; as there is room for more light the brightest day and more rays will not interfere with the first.

The stars are the apexes of what triangles!

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero is the sole patron of music.

Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.

I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung.

The Library is a wilderness of books.

The researcher is more memorable than the researched.

The devil finds work for idle hands.