Henry David Thoreau

We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.

Henry David Thoreau

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.

Henry David Thoreau

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Henry David Thoreau

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

Henry David Thoreau

We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.

Henry David Thoreau

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

Henry David Thoreau

We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.

Henry David Thoreau

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Henry David Thoreau

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Henry David Thoreau

What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Henry David Thoreau