Age Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Count your age with friends but not with years.

— Henry David Thoreau

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

— Henry David Thoreau

Morning brings back the heroic ages.

— Henry David Thoreau

A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.

— Henry David Thoreau

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

— Henry David Thoreau

Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long…

— Henry David Thoreau

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it…

— Henry David Thoreau

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we…

— Henry David Thoreau

For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as…

— Henry David Thoreau

One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

— Henry David Thoreau

The very dogs that sullenly bay the moon from farm-yards in these nights excite more heroism in our breasts than all the…

— Henry David Thoreau

I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most…

— Henry David Thoreau

The gods are partial to no era, but steadily shines their light in the heavens, while the eye of the beholder is…

— Henry David Thoreau

As a man grows older, his ability to sit still and follow indoor occupations increases. He grows vespertinal in his habits as…

— Henry David Thoreau

“No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature, which holds its life by the same tenure…

— Henry David Thoreau

It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They…

— Henry David Thoreau

The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age.…

— Henry David Thoreau

The poet's body even is not fed like other men's, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods,…

— Henry David Thoreau

It would be worthy of the age to print together the collected Scriptures or Sacred Writings of the several nations, the Chinese,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the…

— Henry David Thoreau

What a contrast between the stern and desolate poetry of Ossian, and that of Chaucer, and even of Shakespeare and Milton, much…

— Henry David Thoreau

Any man will go considerably out of his way to pick up a silver dollar; but here are golden words, which the…

— Henry David Thoreau

The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it.…

— Henry David Thoreau

I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

A strange age of the world this, when empires, kingdoms, and republics come a-begging to a private man's door, and utter their…

— Henry David Thoreau

This world has many rings, like Saturn, and we live now on the outmost of them all. None can say deliberately that…

— Henry David Thoreau

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have no doubt that they lived pretty much the same sort of life in the Homeric age, for men have always…

— Henry David Thoreau

The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not…

— Henry David Thoreau

The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if…

— Henry David Thoreau

As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos…

— Henry David Thoreau

“As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of today is present, so some flitting perspectives and demi-experiences of…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that…

— Henry David Thoreau

Doubtless, we are as slow to conceive of Paradise as of Heaven, of a perfect natural as of a perfect spiritual world.…

— Henry David Thoreau

In all her products, Nature only develops her simplest germs. One would say that it was no great stretch of invention to…

— Henry David Thoreau

In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God…

— Henry David Thoreau

Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concretic layers of woodenness in the…

— Henry David Thoreau

No doubt Carlyle has a propensity to exaggerate the heroic in history, that is, he creates you an ideal hero rather than…

— Henry David Thoreau

Alas! this is the crying sin of the age, this want of faith in the prevalence of a man. Nothing can be…

— Henry David Thoreau

Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as…

— Henry David Thoreau