Henry David Thoreau

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

Henry David Thoreau

Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.

Henry David Thoreau

Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

Henry David Thoreau

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

Henry David Thoreau

Most men 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.

Henry David Thoreau

Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.

Henry David Thoreau

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Henry David Thoreau

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Henry David Thoreau

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

Henry David Thoreau

My profession is to always find God in nature.

Henry David Thoreau