Quotes Henry David Thoreau

Men have become the tools of their tools....

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul....

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave...

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of l...

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitu...

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not ...

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals as...

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to l...

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within...

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way....

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day....

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well ...

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm....

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for somet...

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves....

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks....

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends ...

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new....

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit...

Only that day dawns to which we are awake....

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often impr...

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract ou...

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify....

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no pa...

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake....