Quotes by : Henry David Thoreau

Politics is the gizzard of society full of gut and gravel.

The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present....

Simplicity simplicity simplicity. I say let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or....

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.....

Things do not change we change.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

Now-a-days, men wear a fool's cap, and call it a liberty cap.

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition....

Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your....