Quotes By Henry David Thoreau
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
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Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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Men have become the tools of their tools.
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Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
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