There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Topics: Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish...

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish...

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of...

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of...

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can...

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can...

Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our...

Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our...

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience...

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience...

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

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...

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...

We are constantly invited to be who we are.

We are constantly invited to be who we are.

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by...

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by...

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This...

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This...

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is...

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is...

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more...

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more...