Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Confusion

• The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Best Friend, Happiness

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.29, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• 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

  Change, Workout, People

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.5, Courier Corporation

• I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Change, Truth, Clothes

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Economy'.

• Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion,--as if the short spring days were an eternity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Men, Confusion

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.12, Yale University Press

• The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies the presence of this luminary, we excerpt and modernize it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cheer, Dust, History

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.549, Simon and Schuster

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