Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

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

I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in...

#Dreams

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your...

#Friends

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

#Friends

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

#Friendship

That government is best which governs least.

#Government

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

#Happiness

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and...

#Happiness

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the...

#Truth

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism...

#Bitterness, #Truth