Famous Quotes

Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

• A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
• A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
• A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
• A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
• Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
• Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
• All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
• All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
• An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
• As for doing good that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
• As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
• As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
• As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.