Here we have put together a list of the 25 best quotes by Henry David Thoreau.
Top 25 Henry David Thoreau Quotes and Sayings
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Things do not change; we change.
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately...
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
All good things are wild and free.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.