Henry David Thoreau: Quotes, Works & Poems

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Every child begins the world again.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! . Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

Beauty is where it is perceived.

A bore is someone who takes away solitude and doesn't give companionship in return

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

If we would aim at perfection in anything, simplicity must not be overlooked.

Do not engage to find things as you think they are.

Things do not change; we change.