Love Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

The world rests on principles.

— Henry David Thoreau

Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.

— Henry David Thoreau

Love does not analyze its object.

— Henry David Thoreau

Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.

— Henry David Thoreau

My friend is one... who take me for what I am.

— Henry David Thoreau

Write while the heat is in you.

— Henry David Thoreau

Be it life or death, we crave only reality.

— Henry David Thoreau

Let nothing come between you and the light.

— Henry David Thoreau

What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

— Henry David Thoreau

To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.

— Henry David Thoreau

When you knock, ask to see God — none of the servants.

— Henry David Thoreau

When we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.

— Henry David Thoreau

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

— Henry David Thoreau

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

— Henry David Thoreau

We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.

— Henry David Thoreau

All the past is here, present to be tried; let it approve itself if it can.

— Henry David Thoreau

A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity…

— Henry David Thoreau

If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love. It demands directness as of an arrow.

— Henry David Thoreau

It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.

— Henry David Thoreau

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame,…

— Henry David Thoreau

The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all…

— Henry David Thoreau

Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children-- these are the only investments that never fail.

— Henry David Thoreau

We must love our friend so much that she shall be associated with our purest and holiest thoughts alone.

— Henry David Thoreau

I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my…

— Henry David Thoreau

Some have asked if the stock of men could not be improved,--if they could not be bred as cattle. Let Love be…

— Henry David Thoreau

Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love; and in proportion to our truthfulness and confidence in one another, our lives…

— Henry David Thoreau

“If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded…

— Henry David Thoreau

If it is the result of a pure love, there can be nothing sensual in marriage. Chastity is something positive, not negative.…

— Henry David Thoreau

Nature must be viewed humanly to be viewed at all; that is, her scenes must be associated with humane affections, such as…

— Henry David Thoreau

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is…

— Henry David Thoreau

As for Clothing, to come at once to the practical part of the question, perhaps we are led oftener by the love…

— Henry David Thoreau

I know that some will have hard thoughts of me, when they hear their Christ named beside my Buddha, yet I am…

— Henry David Thoreau

Is it the lumberman, then, who is the friend and lover of the pine, stands nearest to it, and understands its nature…

— Henry David Thoreau

The deeds of love are less questionable than any action of an individual can be, for, it being founded on the rarest…

— Henry David Thoreau

“I only know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, of thoughts and affections; and I'm sensible of a…

— Henry David Thoreau

What the essential difference between man and woman is, that they should be thus attracted to one another, no one has satisfactorily…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

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

I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her.…

— Henry David Thoreau

“What other words, we may almost ask, are memorable and worthy to be repeated than those which love has inspired? It is…

— Henry David Thoreau