Birth Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

I was not born to be forced.

— Henry David Thoreau

Slow are the beginnings of philosophy.

— Henry David Thoreau

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

— Henry David Thoreau

There is no beginning too small.

— Henry David Thoreau

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

— Henry David Thoreau

We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.

— Henry David Thoreau

To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.

— Henry David Thoreau

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor.

— Henry David Thoreau

For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once done well is done forever.

— Henry David Thoreau

For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.

— Henry David Thoreau

Truth, Goodness, Beauty - those celestial thrins,Continually are born; e'en now the Universe,With thousand throats, and eke with greener smiles,Its joy confesses…

— Henry David Thoreau

The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature…

— Henry David Thoreau