Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Friendship

• Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Friendship, Nature

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• 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.

• Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Friendship, Best Friend

• I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Home, Two

  Walden ch. 6 (1854)

• The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Love

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.114, Penguin

• I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Friendship, Found

• True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Best Friend, Ignorance

  Henry David Thoreau (2001). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.182, Courier Corporation

• The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Happiness, Real Friends

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.9, Heron Dance Press

• Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Exercise, Imagination

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.9, Heron Dance Press

• My friend is one who takes me for what I am. A stranger takes me for something else than what I am. . . . What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm. It brings men together in crowds and mobs in bar-rooms and elsewhere, but it does not deserve the name of virtue.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Lying, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Bradford Torrey, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1906). “Journal, ed. by Bradford Torrey, 1837-1846, 1850-Nov. 3, 1861”

• A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Dream, Kind

  "Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles".

• Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money to defray the expenses of their funerals, and their memories will be incrusted over with sublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of other men are overgrown with moss; for our Friends have no place in the graveyard.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Memories, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.203, Xist Publishing

• The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Dream, Apotheosis

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.192, Xist Publishing

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Friendship, Success

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.11, Heron Dance Press

• While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it to me on a poisoned arrow.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Arrows, Enemy

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.42, Yale University Press

• A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no otherlaw nor kindness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Wise, True Friend

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.114, Penguin

• Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Art, Experience

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Cousin, Powerful

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.110, Penguin

• What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Real, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.73, Jazzybee Verlag

• The only danger in Friendship is that it will end.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Danger, Ends

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.116, Penguin

• I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor - not sailed - made no voyage, carried no venture.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Anchors, Sea

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.163, Yale University Press

• I would that I were worthy to be any man's Friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Men, Worthy

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.110, Penguin

• There are times when we have had enough even of our Friends.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Had Enough, Enough

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.194, Xist Publishing

• I love my friends very much, but I find that it is of no use to go to see them. I hate them commonly when I am near them. They belie themselves and deny me continually.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Hate, Use

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Thoreau's Book of Quotations”, p.27, Courier Corporation

• To say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Mean, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.110, Penguin

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