Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
The world is a cow that is hard to milk,—life does not come so easy,—and oh, how thinly it is watered ere we get it!
I have not yet learned to live, that I can see, and I fear that I shall not very soon. I find, however, that in the long run things correspond...
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. Friendship
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
In wilderness is the preservation of the world.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. Friendship
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
