Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable...

#Intelligence

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

#Politics

Things do not change; we change.

#Change

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political...

#Politics

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one...

#Friendship, #Love

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

#Love

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises?...

#Business, #Success

Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the...

#Love

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the...

#Success

We were born to succeed, not to fail.

#Success

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer,...

#Government

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

#Wisdom