Children Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes.

— Henry David Thoreau

All men are children, and of one family.

— Henry David Thoreau

Every child begins the world again.

— Henry David Thoreau

The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— 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

Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist.

— Henry David Thoreau

If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care.

— Henry David Thoreau

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

— Henry David Thoreau

Certainly, we do not need to be soothed and entertained always like children. He who resorts to the easy novel, because he…

— Henry David Thoreau

Here is this vast, savage, howling mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold. It plays house,…

— Henry David Thoreau

We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects…

— Henry David Thoreau

If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have seen some whose consciences, owing undoubtedly to former indulgence, had grown to be as irritable as spoilt children, and at…

— Henry David Thoreau

Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold. It plays house,…

— Henry David Thoreau

I think it would be worth the while to introduce a school of children to such [an oak grove], that they may…

— Henry David Thoreau

“There are thousands who are in opinion opposed to slavery and to the war, who yet in effect do nothing to put…

— Henry David Thoreau

In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing…

— Henry David Thoreau

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again And what…

— Henry David Thoreau

“We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between…

— Henry David Thoreau

You can hardly convince a man of error in a life-time, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of…

— Henry David Thoreau

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that…

— Henry David Thoreau

The story of Romulus and Remus being suckled by a wolf is not a meaningless fable. The founders of every State which…

— Henry David Thoreau

We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between…

— 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

Every wild apple shrub excites our expectation thus, somewhat as every wild child. It is, perhaps, a prince in disguise. What a…

— Henry David Thoreau

We sometimes meet uncivil men, children of Amazons, who dwell by mountain paths, and are said to be inhospitable to strangers; whose…

— Henry David Thoreau

We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance…

— Henry David Thoreau

There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express…

— Henry David Thoreau

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who…

— Henry David Thoreau

We soon get through with Nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy. The merest child which has rambled into a…

— Henry David Thoreau

“It is because the children of the empire were not suckled by wolves that they were conquered & displaced by the children…

— Henry David Thoreau

The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost…

— Henry David Thoreau

I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It…

— Henry David Thoreau

I would that our farmers when they cut down a forest felt some of that awe which the old Romans did when…

— Henry David Thoreau

Our panaceas cure but few ails, our general hospitals are private and exclusive. We must set up another Hygeia than is now…

— 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

Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children. Consider the silent influencewhich flowers…

— Henry David Thoreau

In my Pantheon, Pan still reigns in his pristine glory, with his ruddy face, his flowing beard, and his shaggy body, his…

— Henry David Thoreau