Henry David Thoreau: Trending quotes

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”

“This world is but canvas to our imaginations.”

“That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

“Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.”

“The only sin in the world is ignorance.”

“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in”

“I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.”

“We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.”

“Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.”

“But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.”

“I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.”

“I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.”

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

“The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.”

“It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear.”

“Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

“In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood”

“The heart is forever inexperienced.”

“I make myself rich by making my wants few.”