Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Literature

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  There is no remedy for love but to love more.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Life, Break Up

  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
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  It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Thinking, Clouds

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1768, Delphi Classics

• Truths and roses have thorns about them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Flower, Rose, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.73, Heron Dance Press
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  Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sweet, Justice, Musical

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.44, Rowman & Littlefield

• There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Happiness, Depression

• If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Religious, Freedom

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Savio 1

• It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Apples, Tree

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

• Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Positive, Simple

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Friendship, Best Friend

• Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Respect, Appreciate

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.27, Heron Dance Press

• In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Philosophy, Gita

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Walden: Life in the Woods”, p.184, Gibbs Smith

• Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Passion, Hypocrisy

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1727, Delphi Classics

• All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Perseverance, Future, Fighting

• Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Stupid, Mind

  Henry David Thoreau, Richard Dillman (1987). “Thoreau's comments on the art of writing”

• 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)

• We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Optimistic, Heartache

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.59, Courier Corporation

• Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spiritual, Money, Simplicity

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.66, BookBaby

• I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Money, Business, Philosophy

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.98, David M Gross

• Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Literature History, Civilization

• The heart is forever inexperienced.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Heart, Forever, Inexperience

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.10, Heron Dance Press

• 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

• It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Clothes, Fog

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.23, Graphic Arts Books

• Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Valentines Day, Night, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1258, Delphi Classics

• Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Doubt, Pay

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2130, Delphi Classics

• The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Men, Law

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