3,409 Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Let Harlequin be taken with a fit of the colic, and his trappings will have to serve that mood too.

He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. Butwe would not disparage the importance of such calculations as we have described. They are truths in physics because they are true in ethics.

I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.

In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven.

Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it.

Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us.

As far back as I can remember I have unconsciously referred to the experiences of a previous state of existence.

It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone.

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.