Henry David Thoreau

What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet.

Henry David Thoreau

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Henry David Thoreau

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?

Henry David Thoreau

When a man dies he kicks the dust.

Henry David Thoreau

When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

Henry David Thoreau

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

Henry David Thoreau

When you knock, ask to see God – none of the servants.

Henry David Thoreau

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Henry David Thoreau

Wildness is the preservation of the World.

Henry David Thoreau

With all your science – can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that light comes into the soul?

Henry David Thoreau