Henry David Thoreau Quotes
1817 – 1862
American essayist, poet and naturalist, best known for 'Walden', his account of living simply in a cabin near Walden Pond.
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
“I am grateful for what I am & have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.”
“Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things.”
“I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
“Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.”
“I am as desirous of being a good neighbor as I am of being a bad subject.”
“It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.”
“I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.”
“We preserve the so-called peace of our community by deeds of petty violence every day.”
“To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography.”
“There is more religion in men's science than there is science in their religion.”
