Quotes by 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

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with...

#Henry David Thoreau

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not...

#Henry David Thoreau

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for...

#Henry David Thoreau

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

#Henry David Thoreau

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.

#Henry David Thoreau

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I...

#Henry David Thoreau

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when...

#Henry David Thoreau

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the...

#Henry David Thoreau

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up...

#Henry David Thoreau

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

#Henry David Thoreau