Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Henry David Thoreau
Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.

Henry David Thoreau
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have even lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.

Henry David Thoreau
To reget deeply is to live afresh.

Henry David Thoreau
The world is but a canvas to the imagination.

Henry David Thoreau
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Henry David Thoreau
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Henry David Thoreau
I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable.

Henry David Thoreau
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau
It takes two to speak truth - One to speak, and another to hear.

Henry David Thoreau
I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.