--- title: "23 Perfect Quotes By Henry David Thoreau" description: "23 Perfect quotes by Henry David Thoreau. Plus more from Henry David Thoreau and more Perfect sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1da/henry-david-thoreau-20_accuracy_such-is-the-never-failing-beauty-and-acc_801959.jpg" --- > [Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/such-is-the-never-failing-beauty-and-accuracy-of-language-the-most/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1da/henry-david-thoreau-20_accuracy_such-is-the-never-failing-beauty-and-acc_801959.jpg) > [Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/perfect-sincerity-and-transparency-make-a-great-part-of-beauty-as-in/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b6/henry-david-thoreau-20_beauty_perfect-sincerity-and-transparency-make_2687496.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) > [A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/a-truly-good-book-is-something-as-natural-and-as-unexpectedly-and/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/586/henry-david-thoreau-20_book_a-truly-good-book-is-something-as-natura_560869.jpg) > [The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-hawk-is-aerial-brother-of-the-wave-which-he-sails-over-and/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a3/henry-david-thoreau-20_air_the-hawk-is-aerial-brother-of-the-wave-w_2322837.jpg) > [Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/art-is-not-tame-and-nature-is-not-wild-in-the-ordinary-sense-a/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d8/henry-david-thoreau-20_art_art-is-not-tame-and-nature-is-not-wild-i_1855757.jpg) > [Perfect alchemists I keep who can transmute substances without end, and thus the corner of my garden is an inexhaustible treasure-chest. Here…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/perfect-alchemists-i-keep-who-can-transmute-substances-without-end/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/321/henry-david-thoreau-20_alchemist_perfect-alchemists-i-keep-who-can-transm_224591.jpg) > [You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/you-think-that-i-am-impoverishing-myself-withdrawing-from-men-but-in/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f5/henry-david-thoreau-20_chrysalis_you-think-that-i-am-impoverishing-myself_2847222.jpg) > [Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/is-not-disease-the-rule-of-existence-there-is-not-a-lily-pad-floating/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2f/henry-david-thoreau-20_business_is-not-disease-the-rule-of-existence-the_230914.jpg) > [Under the one word "house" are included the schoolhouse, the almshouse, the jail, the tavern, the dwellinghouse; and the meanest shed or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/under-the-one-word-house-are-included-the-schoolhouse-the-almshouse/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/499/henry-david-thoreau-20_architecture_under-the-one-word-house-are-included-th_1967678.jpg) > [We say justly that the weak person is flat, for, like all flat substances, he does not stand in the direction of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/we-say-justly-that-the-weak-person-is-flat-for-like-all-flat/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa2/henry-david-thoreau-20_brave_we-say-justly-that-the-weak-person-is-fl_2496513.jpg) > [I bought me a spy-glass some weeks since. I buy but a few things, and those not till long after I begin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-bought-me-a-spy-glass-some-weeks-since-i-buy-but-a-few-things-and/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/568/henry-david-thoreau-20_glasses_i-bought-me-a-spy-glass-some-weeks-since_2479824.jpg) > [We love to see any redness in the vegetation of the temperate zone. It is the color of colors. This plant speaks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/we-love-to-see-any-redness-in-the-vegetation-of-the-temperate-zone-it/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/073/henry-david-thoreau-20_blood_we-love-to-see-any-redness-in-the-vegeta_2346867.jpg) > [Nature is a greater and more perfect art, the art of God; though, referred to herself, she is genius; and there is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/nature-is-a-greater-and-more-perfect-art-the-art-of-god-though/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/476/henry-david-thoreau-20_art_nature-is-a-greater-and-more-perfect-art_1503245.jpg) > [Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/strange-that-so-few-ever-come-to-the-woods-to-see-how-the-pine-lives/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f68/henry-david-thoreau-20_arms_strange-that-so-few-ever-come-to-the-woo_346012.jpg) > [I please myself with imagining a State at least which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/i-please-myself-with-imagining-a-state-at-least-which-can-afford-to/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/802/henry-david-thoreau-20_aloof_i-please-myself-with-imagining-a-state-a_570581.jpg) > [Doubtless, we are as slow to conceive of Paradise as of Heaven, of a perfect natural as of a perfect spiritual world.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/doubtless-we-are-as-slow-to-conceive-of-paradise-as-of-heaven-of-a/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/806/henry-david-thoreau-20_age_doubtless-we-are-as-slow-to-conceive-of_2339286.jpg) > [Every wild apple shrub excites our expectation thus, somewhat as every wild child. It is, perhaps, a prince in disguise. What a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/every-wild-apple-shrub-excites-our-expectation-thus-somewhat-as-every/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2af/henry-david-thoreau-20_apples_every-wild-apple-shrub-excites-our-expec_127895.jpg) > [It would be worth the while to select our reading, for books are the society we keep; to read only the serenely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/it-would-be-worth-the-while-to-select-our-reading-for-books-are-the/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e4b/henry-david-thoreau-20_book_it-would-be-worth-the-while-to-select-ou_770918.jpg) > [Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concretic layers of woodenness in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/who-knows-what-beautiful-and-winged-life-whose-egg-has-been-buried/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/69c/henry-david-thoreau-20_age_who-knows-what-beautiful-and-winged-life_211929.jpg) > [One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface where the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/one-little-bird-not-larger-than-a-sparrow-it-may-have-been-a/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/659/henry-david-thoreau-20_air_one-little-bird-not-larger-than-a-sparro_1637992.jpg) > [The Man of Genius may at the same time be, indeed is commonly, an Artist, but the two are not to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-man-of-genius-may-at-the-same-time-be-indeed-is-commonly-an/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a0/henry-david-thoreau-20_artisans_the-man-of-genius-may-at-the-same-time-b_2431151.jpg) > [The true man of science will know nature better by his finer organization; he will smell, taste, see, hear, feel, better than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-true-man-of-science-will-know-nature-better-by-his-finer/) [Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a9/henry-david-thoreau-20_application_the-true-man-of-science-will-know-nature_1392686.jpg) ## Other authors on Perfect ## 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/perfect/henry-david-thoreau/#itemlist", "name": "23 Perfect Quotes By Henry David Thoreau", "numberOfItems": 23, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry David Thoreau" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/such-is-the-never-failing-beauty-and-accuracy-of-language-the-most/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1da/henry-david-thoreau-20_accuracy_such-is-the-never-failing-beauty-and-acc_801959.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1da/henry-david-thoreau-20_accuracy_such-is-the-never-failing-beauty-and-acc_801959.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1da/henry-david-thoreau-20_accuracy_such-is-the-never-failing-beauty-and-acc_801959.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of…” — Henry David Thoreau", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry David Thoreau" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/perfect-sincerity-and-transparency-make-a-great-part-of-beauty-as-in/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b6/henry-david-thoreau-20_beauty_perfect-sincerity-and-transparency-make_2687496.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b6/henry-david-thoreau-20_beauty_perfect-sincerity-and-transparency-make_2687496.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b6/henry-david-thoreau-20_beauty_perfect-sincerity-and-transparency-make_2687496.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.” — Henry David Thoreau", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Men talk of freedom! 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