List of quotes from Henry David Thoreau
"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
by Henry David Thoreau
"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book."
by Henry David Thoreau
"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it" by Henry David Thoreau
"I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere. Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength." by Henry David Thoreau
"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives." by Henry David Thoreau
"A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen." by Henry David Thoreau
"The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality." by Henry David Thoreau
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." by Henry David Thoreau
"Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them. "
by Henry David Thoreau Walden: Economy
"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it." by Henry David Thoreau
"I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. " by Henry David Thoreau
"Only that traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better." by Henry David Thoreau
"Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style peculiarly his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones." by Henry David Thoreau
"There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly." by Henry David Thoreau
"It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?" by Henry David Thoreau
"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment." by Henry David Thoreau
"A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen." by Henry David Thoreau
"Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other." by Henry David Thoreau
