Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

“Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.”

“On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friends life also, in our own, to the world.”

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

“Mathematics does not lie, there are many lying mathematicians.”

“I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.”

“He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.”