Henry David Thoreau Quotes - Page 5

"Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul."
-Henry David Thoreau in Necessity quotes.

"Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now."
-Henry David Thoreau

"As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs."
-Henry David Thoreau in Body quotes.

"You can not percieve beauty but with a serene mind."
-Henry David Thoreau in Beauty quotes.

"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."
-Henry David Thoreau

"It takes two to speak the truth--one to speak and the other to hear."
-Henry David Thoreau

"A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince."
-Henry David Thoreau in Mind quotes.

"We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed."
-Henry David Thoreau in Character quotes.

"The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Every man is the builder of a temple called his body."
-Henry David Thoreau in Body quotes.

"Man is the artificer of his own happiness."
-Henry David Thoreau in Happiness quotes.

"Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life."
-Henry David Thoreau in Experience quotes.

"Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains."
-Henry David Thoreau in Eternity quotes.

"Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each."
-Henry David Thoreau