Quotes about Thoreau
Look not to legislatures and churches for your guidance, nor to any soulless incorporated bodies, but to inspirited or inspired ones.
— Henry David Thoreau
In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.
— Henry David Thoreau
There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane.
— Henry David Thoreau
Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.
— Henry David Thoreau
We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.
— Henry David Thoreau
For the most part, the best man's spirit makes a fearful sprite to haunt his grave.
— Henry David Thoreau
As for me, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are now only the subtlest imaginable essences, which would not stain the morning sky.
— Henry David Thoreau
God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
— Henry David Thoreau