The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Topics: Kindness Quotes

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish...

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish...

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song...

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song...

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they...

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they...

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for...

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for...

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer...

They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer...

To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a...

To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a...

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a...

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a...

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that...

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that...

All good things are wild, and free.

All good things are wild, and free.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when...

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when...

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.