Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not...

#Simplicity

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction

#Life, #Satisfaction

I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We...

#Seasons

My Aunt Maria asked me to read the life of Dr. Chalmers, which, however, I...

#Solitude

In the streets and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life...

#Solitude

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in...

#The Present

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

#The Present, #Time

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

#Thought

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

#Time

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

#Ability, #Wealth

I have lately been surveying the Walden woods so extensively and minutely that I now...

#Wilderness

All good things are wild, and free.

#Freedom, #Goodness, #Wilderness