Henry David Thoreau

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

Henry David Thoreau

Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

Henry David Thoreau

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Henry David Thoreau

Trees indeed have hearts.

Henry David Thoreau

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Henry David Thoreau

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

Henry David Thoreau

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?

Henry David Thoreau

Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.

Henry David Thoreau

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Henry David Thoreau

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

Henry David Thoreau