Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to...

#Henry David Thoreau

What is once well done is done forever.

#Henry David Thoreau

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

#Henry David Thoreau

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

#Henry David Thoreau

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

#Henry David Thoreau

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by...

#Henry David Thoreau

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

#Henry David Thoreau

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for...

#Henry David Thoreau

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

#Henry David Thoreau

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

#Henry David Thoreau

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

#Henry David Thoreau

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You...

#Henry David Thoreau