Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

We must have infinite faith in each other.

Friends will not only live in harmony but in melody.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

However mean your life is meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in Paradise. Love your life.

A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

There is not so good an understanding between any two but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Not only must we be good but we must also be good for something.

In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore though they should fall immediately they had better aim at something high.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Its only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.

If I knew ... that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good I should run for my life.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbours.

To know that we know what we know and that we do not know what we do not know that is true knowledge.

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