Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Grace

• How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Beautiful, Book

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.8, Penguin

• We do not live by justice, but by grace.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Justice, Grace

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “A Yankee in Canada: With Anti-slavery and Reform Papers”, p.245

• We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Fashion, Humorous

  Henry David Thoreau, Michael McCurdy, Terry Tempest Williams (2010). “Walden”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

• The gifts of Heaven are never quite gratuitous.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Heaven, Grace, Never Quit

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.373

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