--- title: "22 Hundred Quotes By Henry David Thoreau" description: "22 Hundred quotes by Henry David Thoreau. Plus more from Henry David Thoreau and more Hundred sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c8e/henry-david-thoreau-20_beings_i-do-not-believe-there-are-eight-hundred_375732.jpg" --- > [I do not believe there are eight hundred human beings on the globe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-do-not-believe-there-are-eight-hundred-human-beings-on-the-globe/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c8e/henry-david-thoreau-20_beings_i-do-not-believe-there-are-eight-hundred_375732.jpg) > [I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-lived-in-judea-eighteen-hundred-years-ago-but-i-never-knew-that/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f8/henry-david-thoreau-20_christ_i-lived-in-judea-eighteen-hundred-years_1619494.jpg) > [I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-have-now-a-library-of-nearly-nine-hundred-volumes-over-seven/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39a/henry-david-thoreau-20_hundred_i-have-now-a-library-of-nearly-nine-hund_605643.jpg) > [There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/there-are-nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine-patrons-of-virtue-to-one/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2dc/henry-david-thoreau-20_character_there-are-nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine-p_1169465.jpg) > [Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/simplicity-simplicity-simplicity-i-say-let-your-affairs-be-as-two-or/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc1/henry-david-thoreau-20_accounts_simplicity-simplicity-simplicity-i-say-l_1191480.jpg) > [For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/for-eighteen-hundred-years-though-perchance-i-have-no-right-to-say-it/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9d/henry-david-thoreau-20_bible_for-eighteen-hundred-years-though-percha_2820536.jpg) > [It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/it-is-easier-to-sail-many-thousand-miles-through-cold-and-storm-and/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11d/henry-david-thoreau-20_atlantic-ocean_it-is-easier-to-sail-many-thousand-miles_1286492.jpg) > [As with our colleges, so with a hundred "modern improvements"; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/as-with-our-colleges-so-with-a-hundred-modern-improvements-there-is/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/daf/henry-david-thoreau-20_college_as-with-our-colleges-so-with-a-hundred-m_556943.jpg) > [The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-millions-are-awake-enough-for-physical-labor-but-only-one-in-a/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eec/henry-david-thoreau-20_alive_the-millions-are-awake-enough-for-physic_1621824.jpg) > [You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/you-must-get-your-living-by-loving-but-as-it-is-said-of-the-merchants/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2f/henry-david-thoreau-20_bankruptcy_you-must-get-your-living-by-loving-but-a_323347.jpg) > [Such is always the pursuit of knowledge. The celestial fruits, the golden apples of the Hesperides, are ever guarded by a hundred-headed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/such-is-always-the-pursuit-of-knowledge-the-celestial-fruits-the/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5bb/henry-david-thoreau-20_apples_such-is-always-the-pursuit-of-knowledge_2698434.jpg) > [Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/men-talk-of-freedom-how-many-are-free-to-think-free-from-fear-from/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f66/henry-david-thoreau-20_fear_men-talk-of-freedom-how-many-are-free-to_747962.jpg) > [Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/most-of-the-luxuries-and-many-of-the-so-called-comforts-of-life-are-3/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afe/henry-david-thoreau-20_accounts_most-of-the-luxuries-and-many-of-the-so_2832114.jpg) > [You can hardly convince a man of error in a life-time, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/you-can-hardly-convince-a-man-of-error-in-a-life-time-but-must/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/66e/henry-david-thoreau-20_children_you-can-hardly-convince-a-man-of-error-i_1976008.jpg) > [Four things to think about. 1. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/four-things-to-think-about-1-beware-of-all-enterprises-that-require/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24f/henry-david-thoreau-20_affair_four-things-to-think-about-1-beware-of-a_1468363.jpg) > [They will tell you tough stories of sharks all over the Cape, which I do not presume to doubt utterly,--how they will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/they-will-tell-you-tough-stories-of-sharks-all-over-the-cape-which-i/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b56/henry-david-thoreau-20_beach_they-will-tell-you-tough-stories-of-shar_167037.jpg) > [The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond about a hundred rods south of where I dwell. I usually go to the village along…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-fitchburg-railroad-touches-the-pond-about-a-hundred-rods-south-of/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/641/henry-david-thoreau-20_acquaintance_the-fitchburg-railroad-touches-the-pond_3048975.jpg) > [I think that every town should have a park, or rather a primitive forest, of five hundred or a thousand acres, either…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-think-that-every-town-should-have-a-park-or-rather-a-primitive/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f95/henry-david-thoreau-20_acres_i-think-that-every-town-should-have-a-pa_1232900.jpg) > [While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/while-the-very-inhabitants-of-new-england-were-thus-fabling-about-the/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/136/henry-david-thoreau-20_already-gone_while-the-very-inhabitants-of-new-englan_2483260.jpg) > [I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name,--if ten honest men only,--ay,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-know-this-well-that-if-one-thousand-if-one-hundred-if-ten-men-whom/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/792/henry-david-thoreau-20_abolition_i-know-this-well-that-if-one-thousand-if_373229.jpg) > [The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-millions-are-awake-enough-for-physical-labor-but-only-one-in-a-2/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/179/henry-david-thoreau-20_ability_the-millions-are-awake-enough-for-physic_2682595.jpg) > [To preserve wild animals implies generally the creation of a forest for them to dwell in or resort to. So it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/to-preserve-wild-animals-implies-generally-the-creation-of-a-forest/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d0/henry-david-thoreau-20_animal_to-preserve-wild-animals-implies-general_2184159.jpg) ## Other authors on Hundred ## More by Henry David Thoreau > [If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/if-ever-i-did-a-man-any-goodof-course-it-was-something-exceptional/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) > [Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/our-inventions-are-wont-to-be-pretty-toys-which-distract-our/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) > [“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/men-say-they-know-many-things-but-lo-they-have-taken-wings-the-arts/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) > [I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-am-not-afraid-of-praise-for-i-have-practiced-it-on-myself/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) > [“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/all-voting-is-a-sort-of-gaming-like-checkers-or-back-gammon-with-a/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/this-spending-of-the-best-part-of-one-s-life-earning-money-in-order/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) > [As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/as-for-doing-good-that-is-one-of-the-professions-which-is-full/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) > [A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/a-traveler-who-looks-at-things-with-an-impartial-eye-may-see-what-the/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) > [In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/in-proportion-as-our-inward-life-fails-we-go-more-constantly-and/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) > [I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-had-three-chairs-in-my-house-one-for-solitude-two-for-friendship/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) > [The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-still-youthful-energies-of-the-globe-have-only-to-be-directed-in/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) > [Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/concord-s-little-arch-does-not-span-all-our-fate-nor-is-what/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) > [The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-lumberers-rarely-trouble-themselves-to-put-out-their-fires-such/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) > [“When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/when-he-has-obtained-those-things-which-are-necessary-to-life-there/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) > [Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/wealth-is-measured-by-the-level-of-experience-in-all-aspects-of-life/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hundred/henry-david-thoreau/#itemlist", "name": "22 Hundred Quotes By Henry David Thoreau", "numberOfItems": 22, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I do not believe there are eight hundred human beings on the globe.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry David Thoreau" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-do-not-believe-there-are-eight-hundred-human-beings-on-the-globe/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c8e/henry-david-thoreau-20_beings_i-do-not-believe-there-are-eight-hundred_375732.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c8e/henry-david-thoreau-20_beings_i-do-not-believe-there-are-eight-hundred_375732.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c8e/henry-david-thoreau-20_beings_i-do-not-believe-there-are-eight-hundred_375732.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I do not believe there are eight hundred human beings on the globe.” — Henry David Thoreau", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry David Thoreau" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-lived-in-judea-eighteen-hundred-years-ago-but-i-never-knew-that/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f8/henry-david-thoreau-20_christ_i-lived-in-judea-eighteen-hundred-years_1619494.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f8/henry-david-thoreau-20_christ_i-lived-in-judea-eighteen-hundred-years_1619494.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f8/henry-david-thoreau-20_christ_i-lived-in-judea-eighteen-hundred-years_1619494.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my…” — Henry David Thoreau", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry David Thoreau" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-have-now-a-library-of-nearly-nine-hundred-volumes-over-seven/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39a/henry-david-thoreau-20_hundred_i-have-now-a-library-of-nearly-nine-hund_605643.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39a/henry-david-thoreau-20_hundred_i-have-now-a-library-of-nearly-nine-hund_605643.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39a/henry-david-thoreau-20_hundred_i-have-now-a-library-of-nearly-nine-hund_605643.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.” — Henry David Thoreau", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry David Thoreau" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/there-are-nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine-patrons-of-virtue-to-one/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2dc/henry-david-thoreau-20_character_there-are-nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine-p_1169465.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2dc/henry-david-thoreau-20_character_there-are-nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine-p_1169465.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2dc/henry-david-thoreau-20_character_there-are-nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine-p_1169465.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.” — Henry David Thoreau", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry David Thoreau" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/simplicity-simplicity-simplicity-i-say-let-your-affairs-be-as-two-or/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc1/henry-david-thoreau-20_accounts_simplicity-simplicity-simplicity-i-say-l_1191480.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc1/henry-david-thoreau-20_accounts_simplicity-simplicity-simplicity-i-say-l_1191480.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc1/henry-david-thoreau-20_accounts_simplicity-simplicity-simplicity-i-say-l_1191480.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a…” — Henry David Thoreau", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry David Thoreau" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/for-eighteen-hundred-years-though-perchance-i-have-no-right-to-say-it/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9d/henry-david-thoreau-20_bible_for-eighteen-hundred-years-though-percha_2820536.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9d/henry-david-thoreau-20_bible_for-eighteen-hundred-years-though-percha_2820536.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9d/henry-david-thoreau-20_bible_for-eighteen-hundred-years-though-percha_2820536.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written…” — Henry David Thoreau", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 7, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry David Thoreau" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/it-is-easier-to-sail-many-thousand-miles-through-cold-and-storm-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11d/henry-david-thoreau-20_atlantic-ocean_it-is-easier-to-sail-many-thousand-miles_1286492.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11d/henry-david-thoreau-20_atlantic-ocean_it-is-easier-to-sail-many-thousand-miles_1286492.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11d/henry-david-thoreau-20_atlantic-ocean_it-is-easier-to-sail-many-thousand-miles_1286492.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with…” — Henry David Thoreau", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "As with our colleges, so with a hundred \"modern improvements\"; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes on exacting a compound interest to the last for his early share and numerous succeeding investments in them.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry David Thoreau" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/as-with-our-colleges-so-with-a-hundred-modern-improvements-there-is/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/daf/henry-david-thoreau-20_college_as-with-our-colleges-so-with-a-hundred-m_556943.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/daf/henry-david-thoreau-20_college_as-with-our-colleges-so-with-a-hundred-m_556943.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/daf/henry-david-thoreau-20_college_as-with-our-colleges-so-with-a-hundred-m_556943.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“As with our colleges, so with a hundred \"modern improvements\"; there is an illusion about them; there is not…” — Henry David Thoreau", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry David Thoreau" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-millions-are-awake-enough-for-physical-labor-but-only-one-in-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eec/henry-david-thoreau-20_alive_the-millions-are-awake-enough-for-physic_1621824.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eec/henry-david-thoreau-20_alive_the-millions-are-awake-enough-for-physic_1621824.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eec/henry-david-thoreau-20_alive_the-millions-are-awake-enough-for-physic_1621824.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective…” — Henry David Thoreau", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by this standard, is a failure, and bankruptcy may be surely prophesied.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry David Thoreau" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/you-must-get-your-living-by-loving-but-as-it-is-said-of-the-merchants/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2f/henry-david-thoreau-20_bankruptcy_you-must-get-your-living-by-loving-but-a_323347.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2f/henry-david-thoreau-20_bankruptcy_you-must-get-your-living-by-loving-but-a_323347.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2f/henry-david-thoreau-20_bankruptcy_you-must-get-your-living-by-loving-but-a_323347.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail…” — Henry David Thoreau", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Such is always the pursuit of knowledge. The celestial fruits, the golden apples of the Hesperides, are ever guarded by a hundred-headed dragon which never sleeps, so that it is an Herculean labor to pluck them.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry David Thoreau" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/such-is-always-the-pursuit-of-knowledge-the-celestial-fruits-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5bb/henry-david-thoreau-20_apples_such-is-always-the-pursuit-of-knowledge_2698434.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5bb/henry-david-thoreau-20_apples_such-is-always-the-pursuit-of-knowledge_2698434.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5bb/henry-david-thoreau-20_apples_such-is-always-the-pursuit-of-knowledge_2698434.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Such is always the pursuit of knowledge. The celestial fruits, the golden apples of the Hesperides, are ever…” — Henry David Thoreau", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are perfect slaves.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry David Thoreau" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/men-talk-of-freedom-how-many-are-free-to-think-free-from-fear-from/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f66/henry-david-thoreau-20_fear_men-talk-of-freedom-how-many-are-free-to_747962.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f66/henry-david-thoreau-20_fear_men-talk-of-freedom-how-many-are-free-to_747962.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f66/henry-david-thoreau-20_fear_men-talk-of-freedom-how-many-are-free-to_747962.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine…” — Henry David Thoreau", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our progress. Our life is frittered away by detail. I say let your affairs be as two or three, not a hundred or a thousand. And keep your accounts on your thumb nail.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry David Thoreau" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/most-of-the-luxuries-and-many-of-the-so-called-comforts-of-life-are-3/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afe/henry-david-thoreau-20_accounts_most-of-the-luxuries-and-many-of-the-so_2832114.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afe/henry-david-thoreau-20_accounts_most-of-the-luxuries-and-many-of-the-so_2832114.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afe/henry-david-thoreau-20_accounts_most-of-the-luxuries-and-many-of-the-so_2832114.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive…” — Henry David Thoreau", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 14, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You can hardly convince a man of error in a life-time, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grand-children may be. The geologists tell us that it took one hundred years to prove that fossils are organic, and one hundred and fifty more, to prove that they are not to be referred to the Noachian deluge.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry David Thoreau" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/you-can-hardly-convince-a-man-of-error-in-a-life-time-but-must/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/66e/henry-david-thoreau-20_children_you-can-hardly-convince-a-man-of-error-i_1976008.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/66e/henry-david-thoreau-20_children_you-can-hardly-convince-a-man-of-error-i_1976008.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/66e/henry-david-thoreau-20_children_you-can-hardly-convince-a-man-of-error-i_1976008.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“You can hardly convince a man of error in a life-time, but must content yourself with the reflection that…” — Henry David Thoreau", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 15, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Four things to think about. 1. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. 2. Let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred. 3. Keep three chairs in your house. One for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. 4. To preserve your relationship to nature, make your life more moral, more pure, more innocent.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry David Thoreau" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/four-things-to-think-about-1-beware-of-all-enterprises-that-require/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24f/henry-david-thoreau-20_affair_four-things-to-think-about-1-beware-of-a_1468363.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24f/henry-david-thoreau-20_affair_four-things-to-think-about-1-beware-of-a_1468363.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24f/henry-david-thoreau-20_affair_four-things-to-think-about-1-beware-of-a_1468363.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Four things to think about. 1. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new…” — Henry David Thoreau", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 16, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "They will tell you tough stories of sharks all over the Cape, which I do not presume to doubt utterly,--how they will sometimes upset a boat, or tear it in pieces, to get at the man in it. I can easily believe in the undertow, but I have no doubt that one shark in a dozen years is enough to keep up the reputation of a beach a hundred miles long.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry David Thoreau" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/they-will-tell-you-tough-stories-of-sharks-all-over-the-cape-which-i/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b56/henry-david-thoreau-20_beach_they-will-tell-you-tough-stories-of-shar_167037.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b56/henry-david-thoreau-20_beach_they-will-tell-you-tough-stories-of-shar_167037.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b56/henry-david-thoreau-20_beach_they-will-tell-you-tough-stories-of-shar_167037.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“They will tell you tough stories of sharks all over the Cape, which I do not presume to doubt utterly,--how…” — Henry David Thoreau", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 17, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond about a hundred rods south of where I dwell. I usually go to the village along its causeway, and am, as it were, related to society by this link. The men on the freight trains, who go over the whole length of the road, bow to me as to an old acquaintance, they pass me so often, and apparently they take me for an employee; and so I am. I too would fain be a track-repairer somewhere in the orbit of the earth.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry David Thoreau" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-fitchburg-railroad-touches-the-pond-about-a-hundred-rods-south-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/641/henry-david-thoreau-20_acquaintance_the-fitchburg-railroad-touches-the-pond_3048975.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/641/henry-david-thoreau-20_acquaintance_the-fitchburg-railroad-touches-the-pond_3048975.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/641/henry-david-thoreau-20_acquaintance_the-fitchburg-railroad-touches-the-pond_3048975.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond about a hundred rods south of where I dwell. I usually go to the…” — Henry David Thoreau", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 18, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think that every town should have a park, or rather a primitive forest, of five hundred or a thousand acres, either in one body or several, where a stick would never be cut for fuel, not for the navy, not to make wagons, but stand and decay for higher uses - a common possession for instruction and recreation.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry David Thoreau" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-think-that-every-town-should-have-a-park-or-rather-a-primitive/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f95/henry-david-thoreau-20_acres_i-think-that-every-town-should-have-a-pa_1232900.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f95/henry-david-thoreau-20_acres_i-think-that-every-town-should-have-a-pa_1232900.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f95/henry-david-thoreau-20_acres_i-think-that-every-town-should-have-a-pa_1232900.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I think that every town should have a park, or rather a primitive forest, of five hundred or a thousand…” — Henry David Thoreau", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 19, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato them,... Champlain, the first Governor of Canada,... had already gone to war against the Iroquois in their forest forts, and penetrated to the Great Lakes and wintered there, before a Pilgrim had heard of New England.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry David Thoreau" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/while-the-very-inhabitants-of-new-england-were-thus-fabling-about-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/136/henry-david-thoreau-20_already-gone_while-the-very-inhabitants-of-new-englan_2483260.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/136/henry-david-thoreau-20_already-gone_while-the-very-inhabitants-of-new-englan_2483260.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/136/henry-david-thoreau-20_already-gone_while-the-very-inhabitants-of-new-englan_2483260.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which…” — Henry David Thoreau", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 20, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name,--if ten honest men only,--ay, if one HONESTman, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this copartnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry David Thoreau" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-know-this-well-that-if-one-thousand-if-one-hundred-if-ten-men-whom/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/792/henry-david-thoreau-20_abolition_i-know-this-well-that-if-one-thousand-if_373229.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/792/henry-david-thoreau-20_abolition_i-know-this-well-that-if-one-thousand-if_373229.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/792/henry-david-thoreau-20_abolition_i-know-this-well-that-if-one-thousand-if_373229.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name,--if ten honest men…” — Henry David Thoreau", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 21, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred million to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face? We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry David Thoreau" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-millions-are-awake-enough-for-physical-labor-but-only-one-in-a-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/179/henry-david-thoreau-20_ability_the-millions-are-awake-enough-for-physic_2682595.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/179/henry-david-thoreau-20_ability_the-millions-are-awake-enough-for-physic_2682595.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/179/henry-david-thoreau-20_ability_the-millions-are-awake-enough-for-physic_2682595.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective…” — Henry David Thoreau", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 22, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "To preserve wild animals implies generally the creation of a forest for them to dwell in or resort to. So it is with man. A hundred years ago they sold bark in our streets peeled from our own woods. In the very aspect of those primitive and rugged trees there was, methinks, a tanning principle which hardened and consolidated the fibres of men's thoughts. Ah! already I shudder for these comparatively degenerate days of my native village, when you cannot collect a load of bark of good thickness, and we no longer produce tar and turpentine.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry David Thoreau" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/to-preserve-wild-animals-implies-generally-the-creation-of-a-forest/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d0/henry-david-thoreau-20_animal_to-preserve-wild-animals-implies-general_2184159.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d0/henry-david-thoreau-20_animal_to-preserve-wild-animals-implies-general_2184159.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d0/henry-david-thoreau-20_animal_to-preserve-wild-animals-implies-general_2184159.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“To preserve wild animals implies generally the creation of a forest for them to dwell in or resort to. So it…” — Henry David Thoreau", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hundred/henry-david-thoreau/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hundred/henry-david-thoreau/", "name": "Hundred Quotes by Henry David Thoreau", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hundred/henry-david-thoreau/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c8e/henry-david-thoreau-20_beings_i-do-not-believe-there-are-eight-hundred_375732.jpg" }, "description": "22 Hundred quotes by Henry David Thoreau. Plus more from Henry David Thoreau and more Hundred sayings from other authors.", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hundred/henry-david-thoreau/#breadcrumb" } }, { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hundred/henry-david-thoreau/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Topics", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Hundred", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hundred/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "name": "Henry David Thoreau", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hundred/henry-david-thoreau/" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 } } ] } ```