Famous Quotes / Henry David Thoreau
470 Quotations by Henry David Thoreau
- 281. Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, becaus ...
- 282. Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which ...
- 283. Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which ...
- 284. Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; l ...
- 285. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
- 286. Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the sou ...
- 287. Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are boug ...
- 288. Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!
- 289. That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boil ...
- 290. That government is best which governs least.
- 291. That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- 292. That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess.
- 293. Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other ...
- 294. The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of ...
- 295. The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.
- 296. The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But ...
- 297. The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.
- 298. The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.
- 299. The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would ...
- 300. The cost of a thing is that amount of life which must be exchanged for it.