Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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Henry David Thoreau

Profession : Author

Birth : July 12, 1817

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Henry David Thoreau

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Henry David Thoreau

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Henry David Thoreau

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Henry David Thoreau

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

Henry David Thoreau

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed... Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

Henry David Thoreau

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

Henry David Thoreau

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

Henry David Thoreau

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

Henry David Thoreau

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Henry David Thoreau

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

Henry David Thoreau

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

Henry David Thoreau

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Henry David Thoreau

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Henry David Thoreau

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

Henry David Thoreau