Henry David Thoreau

It is in vain to write on the seasons unless you have the seasons in you.

Henry David Thoreau

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Henry David Thoreau

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

Henry David Thoreau

It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

Henry David Thoreau

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

Henry David Thoreau

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

Henry David Thoreau

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

Henry David Thoreau

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

Henry David Thoreau

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

Henry David Thoreau

So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.

Henry David Thoreau