Inspirational Quotes by Henry David Thoreau · Page 6

I lingered most about the fireplace, as the most vital part of the house.

— Henry David Thoreau

Nothing can be more useful to you than a determination not to be hurried.

— Henry David Thoreau

Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

— Henry David Thoreau

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”

— Henry David Thoreau

The question is not what you look at--but how you look, and whether you see.

— Henry David Thoreau

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

— Henry David Thoreau

The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it.

— Henry David Thoreau

What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?

— Henry David Thoreau

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

— Henry David Thoreau

Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.

— Henry David Thoreau

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

— Henry David Thoreau

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

— Henry David Thoreau

We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.

— 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

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right…

— 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

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

— Henry David Thoreau

When a man truly commits, the universe will conspire to assure his success.

— Henry David Thoreau

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake.

— Henry David Thoreau

Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots.

— Henry David Thoreau

Invariably our best nights were those when it rained.

— Henry David Thoreau

There are times when we have had enough even of our Friends.

— Henry David Thoreau

One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.

— Henry David Thoreau

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

— Henry David Thoreau

All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.

— Henry David Thoreau

The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.

— Henry David Thoreau

We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto.

— Henry David Thoreau

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which…

— Henry David Thoreau

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.

— Henry David Thoreau

It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our mind's habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most…

— Henry David Thoreau

With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?

— Henry David Thoreau

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

— Henry David Thoreau

The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Henry David Thoreau

I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by…

— Henry David Thoreau

“It enriches us infinitely to recognize greater qualities than we possess in another.”

— Henry David Thoreau

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

— Henry David Thoreau