Henry David Thoreau

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Henry David Thoreau

I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good.

Henry David Thoreau

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.

Henry David Thoreau

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

Henry David Thoreau

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Henry David Thoreau

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.

Henry David Thoreau

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

Henry David Thoreau

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

Henry David Thoreau

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

Henry David Thoreau