Quotable Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
Here’s a list of selected quotable quotes from Henry David Thoreau that I like:
“Things do not change: We change.”
“Dreams are the touchstone of our character. “
“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”
“We make ourselves rich by making our wants few.”
“Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.”
“Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.”
“The man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
“When it is time to die, let us not discover that we never lived.”
“It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.”
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
“What lies before us and what lies beyond us is tiny compared to what lies within us.”
“It’s the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful and gives birth to imagination.”
“The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”
“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance: they make the latitudes and longitudes. “
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. “
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
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