Quotes about Henry David Thoreau

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where...

#Henry David Thoreau

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

#Henry David Thoreau

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

#Henry David Thoreau

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

#Henry David Thoreau

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be...

#Henry David Thoreau

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to...

#Henry David Thoreau

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

#Henry David Thoreau

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new...

#Henry David Thoreau

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep...

#Henry David Thoreau

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

#Henry David Thoreau

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as...

#Henry David Thoreau

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate...

#Henry David Thoreau