470 Quotations by Henry David Thoreau
- 261. Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.
- 262. Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for thos ...
- 263. Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for thos ...
- 264. Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
- 265. Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
- 266. People die of fright and live of confidence.
- 267. Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.
- 268. Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.
- 269. Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
- 270. Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its o ...
- 271. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, ...
- 272. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wi ...
- 273. Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
- 274. Routine is a ground to stand on, a wall to retreat to; we cannot draw on our boots without bracing o ...
- 275. Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make-Believe!
- 276. Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest py ...
- 277. Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, wh ...
- 278. Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to o ...
- 279. Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
- 280. Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
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