Henry David Thoreau quotes

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The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

Henry David Thoreau


Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
Henry David Thoreau


It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
Henry David Thoreau


Live the life you've dreamed.
Henry David Thoreau



An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
Henry David Thoreau


Being is the great explainer.
Henry David Thoreau



If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
Henry David Thoreau



If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
Henry David Thoreau


Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
Henry David Thoreau


The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
Henry David Thoreau

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.
Henry David Thoreau


How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
Henry David Thoreau


Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Henry David Thoreau


There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
Henry David Thoreau


They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
Henry David Thoreau


The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
Henry David Thoreau


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


Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
Henry David Thoreau


The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
Henry David Thoreau



Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.
Henry David Thoreau


Faith never makes a confession.
Henry David Thoreau


I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
Henry David Thoreau


The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
Henry David Thoreau



What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
Henry David Thoreau



I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.
Henry David Thoreau