Top 100 Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
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Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
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There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.
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It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
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I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
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We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.
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It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
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Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
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An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
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There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
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