The language of friendship is not words but meanings. --Henry David Thoreau — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My Friend is that one whom I can associate with my choicest thought. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our actual Friends are but distant relations of those to whom we are pledged. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We must love our friend so much that she shall be associated with our purest and holiest thoughts alone. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Friends are made for caring and sharing. Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Even the utmost good-will and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Of what use the friendliest disposition even, if there are no hours given to Friendship, if it is forever postponed to unimportant… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Friendship is the unspeakable joy and blessing that result to two or more individuals who from constitution sympathize. Such natures are liable… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is equally impossible to forget our Friends, and to make them answer to our ideal. When they say farewell, then indeed… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Friendship is first, Friendship last. But it is equally impossible to forget our Friends, and to make them answer to our ideal.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What is commonly honored with the name of Friendship is no very profound or powerful instinct. Men do not, after all, love… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The true and not despairing Friend will address his Friend in some such terms as these. "I never asked thy leave to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Even the utmost good-will and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Friends . . . They are kind to each other's hopes. They cherish each other's dreams. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
