Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

#Dreams

All this worldly wisdom was once the unnameable heresy of some wise man.

#Wisdom, #Wise

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

#Wisdom

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

#Success

It takes two to speak the truth one to speak, and another to hear.

#Truth

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth

#Truth

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than...

#Truth

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to...

#God

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God...

#God

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

#God

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

#Dreams

If you have built castles in the air; your work need not be lost; that...

#Dreams