Henry David Thoreau

As for doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

Henry David Thoreau

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Henry David Thoreau

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the cause of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

Henry David Thoreau

As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.

Henry David Thoreau

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Henry David Thoreau

Be it life or death, we crave only reality.

Henry David Thoreau

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

Henry David Thoreau

Behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

Henry David Thoreau

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

Henry David Thoreau

Birds never sing in caves.

Henry David Thoreau