Quotes by : Henry David Thoreau

You shall see rude and sturdy, experienced and wise men, keeping their castles, or teaming up their summer’s....

We like that a sentence should read as if its author had he held a plough instead of a pen could have....

A common and natural result of an undue respect of law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel,....

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant....

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

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....