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

quote by Henry David Thoreau
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

quote by Henry David Thoreau
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Make the most of your regrets. . . . To regret deeply is to live afresh.

quote by Henry David Thoreau
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

quote by Henry David Thoreau
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.

quote by Henry David Thoreau
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

quote by Henry David Thoreau
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Henry David Thoreau in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

quote by Henry David Thoreau
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Henry David Thoreau in Walden, 1854
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth

quote by Henry David Thoreau
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!