henry david thoreau quotes

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

-- Henry David Thoreau

I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern,
any adequate account of that nature with which I am acquainted. Mythology
comes nearest to it of any.
-- Henry David Thoreau

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

-- Henry David Thoreau

The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the
law free.

-- Henry David Thoreau

What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a
free meandering brook.
-- Henry David Thoreau

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must
wait till that other is ready.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden(1854),I,Economy

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau

That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience"

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only
great poets can read them.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden(1854), III, Reading

What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a
free meandering brook.
-- Henry David Thoreau

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden(1854),I,Economy

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a
statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more
glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through
which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the
day, that is the highest of arts.

-- Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live"

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

-- Henry David Thoreau

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather
a new wearer of clothes.
-- Henry David Thoreau

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

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

In wildness is the preservation of the world.
Henry David Thoreau, Walking(1862)

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

-- Henry David Thoreau

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

-- Henry David Thoreau

Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your
obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood and field in a winter night
for something to satisfy his hunger. Notwithstanding cold and hounds and
traps, his race survives. I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.
-- Henry David Thoreau