470 Quotations by Henry David Thoreau
- 341. The perception of beauty is a moral test.
- 342. The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pi ...
- 343. The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.
- 344. The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.
- 345. The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his t ...
- 346. The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more m ...
- 347. The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable.
- 348. The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
- 349. The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
- 350. The stars are the apexes of what triangles!
- 351. The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manl ...
- 352. The sun is but a morning star.
- 353. The universe is wider than our views of it.
- 354. The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
- 355. The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
- 356. The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
- 357. The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of t ...
- 358. The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant ...
- 359. The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temp ...
- 360. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of the evil to one who is striking at the root.
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