60+ Amazing Henry David Thoreau Quotes That Serve as Life Lessons

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

A man's riches are based on what he can do without.

Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

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

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

Man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.

God will see that you do not want society.

Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

The man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.