Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

I quarrel not with far-off foes, but with those who, near at home, co-operate with,...

#Fighting

Fire is the most tolerable third party

#Fire

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and...

#Books, #Generations

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they...

#Goodbye

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

#Goodness

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit...

#Gossip

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

#Government

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is...

#Government

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

#Heaven

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all...

#Heroism

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by...

#Houses

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being...

#Imagination