Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

#Friendship, #Love

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.

#Friendship, #Love

If you give money, spend yourself with it.

#Money

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

#Money

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

#Books

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does...

#Money

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessity of...

#Money

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

#Books

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

#Books

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of...

#Books

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what...

#Knowledge

Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in...

#Beauty