If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Topics: Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy,...

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy,...

Simplify, simplify.

Simplify, simplify.

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the...

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the...

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them...

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them...

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this...

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this...

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what...

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what...

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with...

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with...

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What...

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What...

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of...

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of...

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become...

What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become...

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering...

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering...

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to...

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to...