Soul Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

— Henry David Thoreau

When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance?

— Henry David Thoreau

On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning.

— Henry David Thoreau

One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.

— Henry David Thoreau

The soul grows by subtraction, not addition.

— Henry David Thoreau

Lose the world, get lost in it, and find your soul.

— Henry David Thoreau

I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

— Henry David Thoreau

Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

— Henry David Thoreau

How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies; how slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of…

— Henry David Thoreau

The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body.

— 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

Such is beauty ever,-neither here nor there, now nor then,-neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to…

— Henry David Thoreau

Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.

— Henry David Thoreau

The Universal Soul, as it is called, has an interest in the stacking of hay, the foddering of cattle, and the draining…

— Henry David Thoreau

I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.

— Henry David Thoreau

The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.

— Henry David Thoreau

When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Who looks in the sun will see no light else; but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Letter-writing too often degenerates into a communicating of facts, and not of truths; of other men's deeds and not our thoughts.What are…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain. I have had twenty-five or thirty souls, with…

— Henry David Thoreau

I would remind my countrymen, that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. No…

— Henry David Thoreau

But what is quackery? It is commonly an attempt to cure the diseases of a man by addressing his body alone. There…

— Henry David Thoreau

The order of things should be reversed; the seventh day should be the day of toil...and the other six his Sabbath of…

— Henry David Thoreau

The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of…

— Henry David Thoreau

Every sacred book, successively, has been accepted in the faith that it was to be the final resting-place of the sojourning soul;but…

— Henry David Thoreau

No doubt Carlyle has a propensity to exaggerate the heroic in history, that is, he creates you an ideal hero rather than…

— Henry David Thoreau

As for conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that. Let not your right hand…

— Henry David Thoreau

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for…

— Henry David Thoreau

How many a poor immortal soul I have met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life,…

— 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

The very austerity of the Brahmans is tempting to the devotional soul, as a more refined and nobler luxury. Wants so easily…

— Henry David Thoreau

An ordinary man will work every day for a year at shoveling dirt to support his body, or a family of bodies;…

— Henry David Thoreau

The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls, and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. Those…

— Henry David Thoreau

What means the fact--which is so common, so universal--that some soul that has lost all hope for itself can inspire in another…

— Henry David Thoreau

Of what significance the light of day, if it is not the reflection of an inward dawn?--to what purpose is the veil…

— 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

As all curves have reference to their centres or foci, so all beauty of character has reference to the soul, and is…

— Henry David Thoreau

I saw deep in the eyes of the animals the human soul look out upon me. I saw where it was born…

— Henry David Thoreau